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title: In the German translation (p. 188) _Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die ei… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the German translation (p. 188) _Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die einst seine Mutter gewesen war_. Who acts: Wie. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 186

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In the German translation (p. 188) \_Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die einst seine Mutter gewesen war\_.

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**Who acts:** Wie · **What happens:** die · **To what, where:** German translation, Kuh, seine Mutter war

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wie), 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:pg22373:49:186
# text = In the German translation (p. 188) _Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die einst seine Mutter gewesen war_.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	188	188	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Wie	Wie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Kuh	Kuh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	sah	sah	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	einst	ein	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	seine	seine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	Mutter	Mutter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	gewesen	gewesen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | Wie |  |  | the German translation |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | Wie *not said here* | Kuh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | Wie *not said here* | seine Mutter war |  |  |  |  | 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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