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description: Can it be connected with the Greek _Lamia_ which is now written also as +Lamnia+, +Lamna+ and +Lamnissa+? Who acts: Lamnia. 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 85

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Can it be connected with the Greek \_Lamia\_ which is now written also as +Lamnia+, +Lamna+ and +Lamnissa+?

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**Who acts:** Lamnia · **What happens:** connect, write · **To what, where:** name, Lamia

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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 (Lamnia), 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:pg22373:41:85
# text = Can it be connected with the Greek _Lamia_ which is now written also as +Lamnia+, +Lamna+ and +Lamnissa+?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lamia	lamia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Lamnia	Lamnia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Lamna	Lamna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Lamnissa	Lamnissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | can · passive |  | name |  |  |  | with the Greek and Lamnissa | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with greek=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **write** | present · passive | Lamnia | Lamia |  |  | now |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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