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title: My mother is--the beauteous Sun, And my father--the bright Moon; My… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother is--the beauteous Sun, And my father--the bright Moon; My brothers are--the many Stars, And my sisters--the white Dawns. Who acts: mother, brothers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its dependency tree 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 58

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My mother is--the beauteous Sun, And my father--the bright Moon; My brothers are--the many Stars, And my sisters--the white Dawns.

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**Who acts:** mother, brothers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beauteous Sun

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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 (mother, brothers), 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:pg22373:33:58
# text = My mother is--the beauteous Sun, And my father--the bright Moon; My brothers are--the many Stars, And my sisters--the white Dawns.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Dawns	Dawn	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | My mother | the beauteous Sun and my father and the many Stars and my sisters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | My brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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