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description: Then the gnats and flies assemble, perform a funeral service over her remains, and carry them off on their shoulders to the village of Komarovo (_komar_ = gnat). Who acts: gnats. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with it
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 160

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Then the gnats and flies assemble, perform a funeral service over her remains, and carry them off on their shoulders to the village of Komarovo (\_komar\_ = gnat).

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**Who acts:** gnats · **What happens:** assemble, perform, carry off · **To what, where:** funeral service, remains, gnats, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats), 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:pg22373:18:160
# text = Then the gnats and flies assemble, perform a funeral service over her remains, and carry them off on their shoulders to the village of Komarovo (_komar_ = gnat).
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	assemble	assemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Komarovo	Komarovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	komar	komar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	_
32	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	33	punct	_	_
33	gnat	gnat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | present | the gnats and flies |  |  |  | then |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **perform** | present |  | a funeral service |  | Khudyakof's remains |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 3 | **carry off** | infinitive |  | gnats *= gnat* |  | gnats's shoulders |  | to the village of Komarovo | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to village=Destination |

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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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