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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 123

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There is also a provincial word, \_kostit'\_, meaning to revile or scold.

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**Who acts:** provincial word · **What happens:** be, mean, revile, scold

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (provincial word), 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:pg22373:33:123
# text = There is also a provincial word, _kostit'_, meaning to revile or scold.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	kostit	kostit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	revile	revile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a provincial word |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a provincial word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **revile** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a provincial word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **scold** | infinitive | a provincial word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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