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description: [1] So our word "book," the German _Buch_, is derived from the _Buche_ or beech tree, of which the old Runic staves were formed. Who acts: word, our. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 71

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\[1\] So our word "book," the German \_Buch\_, is derived from the \_Buche\_ or beech tree, of which the old Runic staves were formed.

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**Who acts:** word, our · **What happens:** book, derive, form, word · **To what, where:** book, Buche, old Runic staves

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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 (word, our), 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:pg22373:3:71
# text = [1] So our word "book," the German _Buch_, is derived from the _Buche_ or beech tree, of which the old Runic staves were formed.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Buch	Buch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Buche	Buche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Runic	runic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	staves	stave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **book** *in a quote* |  | our word |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | book |  | the Buche or beech tree |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from buche=Material |
| 3 | **form** | past · passive |  | the old Runic staves |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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