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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 48

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They may, also, be related to the mermen and mermaids of the sea-coasts, and to the similar beings with which, under various names, tradition peoples the lakes, and streams, and fountains of Europe.

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**Who acts:** mortals, tradition · **What happens:** be, people · **To what, where:** lakes, various names

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (mortals, tradition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:1709`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:26:48
# text = They may, also, be related to the mermen and mermaids of the sea-coasts, and to the similar beings with which, under various names, tradition peoples the lakes, and streams, and fountains of Europe.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mermen	merman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	peoples	people	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | mortals *= mortal* |  |  |  |  | to the mermen of the sea coasts and mermaids and the similar beings; related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **people** | present | tradition | the lakes and streams and fountains of Europe |  | various names |  | with the similar beings | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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