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title: [197] The Russian word is _zakukovali_, _i.e._, "They began to cucko… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [197] The Russian word is _zakukovali_, _i.e._, "They began to cuckoo." Who acts: Russian word, Wallachian. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, 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 16, sentence 163

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\[197\] The Russian word is \_zakukovali\_, \_i.e.\_, "They began to cuckoo."

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**Who acts:** Russian word, Wallachian · **What happens:** be, begin, cuckoo · **To what, where:** zakukovali

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian word, Wallachian), 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:pg22373:34:163
# text = [197] The Russian word is _zakukovali_, _i.e._, "They began to cuckoo."
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	197	197	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	zakukovali	zakukovali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	2	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	cuckoo	cuckoo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 Russian word | zakukovali |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | Wallachian |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cuckoo** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Wallachian *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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