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title: [119] This story is very like that of the "Rider of Grianaig," "Tale… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [119] This story is very like that of the "Rider of Grianaig," "Tales of the West Highlands," iii. Who acts: West Highlands. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 168

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\[119\] This story is very like that of the "Rider of Grianaig," "Tales of the West Highlands," iii.

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**Who acts:** West Highlands · **What happens:** be, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (West Highlands), 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:pg22373:33:168
# text = [119] This story is very like that of the "Rider of Grianaig," "Tales of the West Highlands," iii.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	119	119	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Rider	Rider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Highlands	Highlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
26	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like that; 119  this story *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *in a quote* |  | the West Highlands |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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