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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 47

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In another story,\[151\] the being who obtains a child from one of the incautious fathers of the Jephthah type who abound in popular fiction, is of a very singular nature.

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**Who acts:** Jephthah type · **What happens:** be, abound · **To what, where:** popular fiction, story

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jephthah type), 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:pg22373:28:47
# text = In another story,[151] the being who obtains a child from one of the incautious fathers of the Jephthah type who abound in popular fiction, is of a very singular nature.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	151	151	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	obtains	obtain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	incautious	incautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Jephthah	Jephthah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | obtain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **abound** | present | the Jephthah type |  |  | popular fiction |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fiction=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | another story |  | of a singular nature | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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