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title: But it originally meant Sunday, the non-working day (_ne_ = not, _dy… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it originally meant Sunday, the non-working day (_ne_ = not, _dyelat'_ = to do or work.) Who acts: word. 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 87

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But it originally meant Sunday, the non-working day (\_ne\_ = not, \_dyelat'\_ = to do or work.)

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** mean, do, work · **To what, where:** dyelat

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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 (word), 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:pg22373:41:87
# text = But it originally meant Sunday, the non-working day (_ne_ = not, _dyelat'_ = to do or work.)
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	non-working	non-working	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dyelat	dyelat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | word | dyelat |  |  | sunday | originally *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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