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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 9

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But most of the Russian jests turn upon pivots which are familiar to all the world, and have for their themes such common-place topics as the incorrigible folly of man, the inflexible obstinacy of woman.

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**Who acts:** most, pivots · **What happens:** turn, be, have · **To what, where:** pivots

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, pivots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:15:9
# text = But most of the Russian jests turn upon pivots which are familiar to all the world, and have for their themes such common-place topics as the incorrigible folly of man, the inflexible obstinacy of woman.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jests	jest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pivots	pivot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	themes	theme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	incorrigible	incorrigible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	inflexible	inflexible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	obstinacy	obstinacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | most of the Russian jests |  |  | pivots |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon pivot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | pivots |  |  |  |  | to all world; familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | most of the Russian jests *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for jests's themes  such place topics as the incorrigible folly of man and the inflexible obstinacy of woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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