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title: The Polish _licho_ properly signifies _uneven_. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Polish _licho_ properly signifies _uneven_. Who acts: Polish licho. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, 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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 4

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The Polish \_licho\_ properly signifies \_uneven\_.

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**Who acts:** Polish licho · **What happens:** signify · **To what, where:** uneven

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polish licho), 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:pg22373:41:4
# text = The Polish _licho_ properly signifies _uneven_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	licho	licho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
6	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	uneven	uneven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | the Polish licho | uneven |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot uneven=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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