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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 28

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Before long, in all probability, a copious flood of light will be poured upon the connexion of the Popular Tales of Russia with those of other lands by one of those scholars who are best qualified to deal with the subject.

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**Who acts:** scholars, light · **What happens:** pour, be, deal, flood · **To what, where:** long probability

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scholars, light), 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:pg22373:3:28
# text = Before long, in all probability, a copious flood of light will be poured upon the connexion of the Popular Tales of Russia with those of other lands by one of those scholars who are best qualified to deal with the subject.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	copious	copious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	connexion	connexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	38	advmod	_	_
38	qualified	qualified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | future · passive |  | all long probability |  |  |  | upon the connexion of the Popular Tales of Russia; with those; by one of that scholars | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that scholars |  |  |  |  | qualified, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | to-infinitive | that scholars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the subject | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with subject=Theme |
| 4 | **flood** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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