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title: Ivan is the Sun, the aurora [or dawn] is his [true] sister; at morni… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ivan is the Sun, the aurora [or dawn] is his [true] sister; at morning, near the abode of the aurora, that is, in the east, the shades of night [his witch, or false sister] go underground, and the Sun arises to the heavens; this is the mythical pair of scales. Who acts: Ivan, that, true sister, Sun.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 39

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Ivan is the Sun, the aurora \[or dawn\] is his \[true\] sister; at morning, near the abode of the aurora, that is, in the east, the shades of night \[his witch, or false sister\] go underground, and the Sun arises to the heavens; this is the mythical pair of scales.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, that, true sister, Sun, this · **What happens:** be, go, arise, shade · **To what, where:** Sun, true sister, east, mythical pair, night

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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 (Ivan, that, true sister, Sun), 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:pg22373:33:39
# text = Ivan is the Sun, the aurora [or dawn] is his [true] sister; at morning, near the abode of the aurora, that is, in the east, the shades of night [his witch, or false sister] go underground, and the Sun arises to the heavens; this is the mythical pair of scales.
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	aurora	aurora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	aurora	aurora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
49	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	arises	arise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	63	punct	_	_
59	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	63	nsubj	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ivan | Ivan's true sister and the east |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  | the east |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | present | Ivan's true sister and the east |  |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **arise** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | to the heavens | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | this | the mythical pair |  |  |  | of scales | tree rules |
| 7 | **shade** |  |  | night |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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