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description: The word here translated "to scrub," properly means to rub and flog with the soft twig used in the baths for that purpose. Who acts: word. 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 o
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 39

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The word here translated "to scrub," properly means to rub and flog with the soft twig used in the baths for that purpose.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** translate, scrub, mean, rub, flog, use · **To what, where:** word, soft twig, baths

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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 (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:pg22373:34:39
# text = The word here translated "to scrub," properly means to rub and flog with the soft twig used in the baths for that purpose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	scrub	scrub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flog	flog	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | participle |  | the word *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **scrub** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | the word |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **rub** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flog** | infinitive | the word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the soft twig | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with twig=Instrument |
| 6 | **use** | participle |  | the soft twig *not said here* |  | the baths |  | for that purpose | vn eat-39.1 «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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