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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 96

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The Russian name for the day, \_Sereda\_ or \_Sreda\_, means "the middle," Wednesday being the middle of the working week.

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**Who acts:** Russian name, Wednesday · **What happens:** mean, be, work · **To what, where:** middle

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian name, Wednesday), 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:pg22373:37:96
# text = The Russian name for the day, _Sereda_ or _Sreda_, means "the middle," Wednesday being the middle of the working week.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Sereda	Sereda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Sreda	Sreda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the Russian name for the day | the middle |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | Wednesday | the middle |  |  | week |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «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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