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description: Similarly Tuesday is called _Vtornik_, from _vtoroi_ = second; Wednesday is _Sereda_, "the middle;" Thursday _Chetverg_, from _chetverty_ = fourth. Who acts: Wednesday. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its depend
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 61

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Similarly Tuesday is called \_Vtornik\_, from \_vtoroi\_ = second; Wednesday is \_Sereda\_, "the middle;" Thursday \_Chetverg\_, from \_chetverty\_ = fourth.

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**Who acts:** Wednesday · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** Tuesday, Sereda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg22373:41:61
# text = Similarly Tuesday is called _Vtornik_, from _vtoroi_ = second; Wednesday is _Sereda_, "the middle;" Thursday _Chetverg_, from _chetverty_ = fourth.
1	Similarly	similarly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Vtornik	Vtornik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	vtoroi	vtoroi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	14	punct	_	_
14	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Sereda	Sereda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Chetverg	Chetverg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	chetverty	chetverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
36	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	37	punct	_	_
37	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Tuesday |  |  |  | second, similarly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Wednesday | Sereda and the middle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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