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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 28

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Such is the story, says Bronevsky, which the Kirghiz tell with respect to some statues of unknown origin which stand (or used to stand) near the Ayaguza, a river falling into Lake Balkhash.

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**Who acts:** Such story, Bronevsky, river · **What happens:** be, say, tell, use, stand, fall · **To what, where:** Such story, stand, Ayaguza, Lake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such story, Bronevsky, river), 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:pg22373:42:28
# text = Such is the story, says Bronevsky, which the Kirghiz tell with respect to some statues of unknown origin which stand (or used to stand) near the Ayaguza, a river falling into Lake Balkhash.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bronevsky	Bronevsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Kirghiz	Kirghiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	near	near	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Ayaguza	Ayaguza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	Balkhash	Balkhash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Such story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Such story |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Bronevsky |  |  |  |  | with respect to some statues of unknown origin | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  | which stand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **stand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Ayaguza |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near ayaguza=Location |
| 6 | **fall** | gerund | a river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into Lake *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result |

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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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