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description: According to him, "_Jagga-lema_, in Esthonian, means to quarrel or brawl, _jagga-lemine_ means quarrelling or brawling." Who acts: Esthonian, lemine _. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, with its dependency tree and the
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 79

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According to him, "\_Jagga-lema\_, in Esthonian, means to quarrel or brawl, \_jagga-lemine\_ means quarrelling or brawling."

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**Who acts:** Esthonian, lemine \_ · **What happens:** accord, mean, quarrel · **To what, where:** Rossiya, quarrelling

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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 (Esthonian, lemine \_), 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:pg22373:34:79
# text = According to him, "_Jagga-lema_, in Esthonian, means to quarrel or brawl, _jagga-lemine_ means quarrelling or brawling."
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Jagga	Jagga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lema	lema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Esthonian	Esthonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brawl	brawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	jagga	jagga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	lemine	lemine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	brawling	brawling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  | Rossiya |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Esthonian |  |  |  |  | accord Jagga lema | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **quarrel** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Esthonian *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | lemine \_ | quarrelling or brawling |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrelling=Topic |

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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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