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title: [296] About which, see Professor Wilson's note on Somadeva's story o… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [296] About which, see Professor Wilson's note on Somadeva's story of the "Origin of Pataliputra," "Essays," i. p. 168-9, with Dr. Rost's reference to L. Deslongchamps, "Essai sur les Fables Indiennes," Paris, 1838, p. 35 and Graesse, "Sagenkreise des Mittelalters," Leipsig, 1842, p. 191. Who acts: 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 75

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\[296\] About which, see Professor Wilson's note on Somadeva's story of the "Origin of Pataliputra," "Essays," i. p. 168-9, with Dr. Rost's reference to L. Deslongchamps, "Essai sur les Fables Indiennes," Paris, 1838, p. 35 and Graesse, "Sagenkreise des Mittelalters," Leipsig, 1842, p. 191.

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**Who acts:** 296, Sagenkreise, Wilson, Rost · **What happens:** see, de, note, refer · **To what, where:** note, story, Mittelalters · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (296, Sagenkreise, Wilson, Rost), 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:pg22373:49:75
# text = [296] About which, see Professor Wilson's note on Somadeva's story of the "Origin of Pataliputra," "Essays," i. p. 168-9, with Dr. Rost's reference to L. Deslongchamps, "Essai sur les Fables Indiennes," Paris, 1838, p. 35 and Graesse, "Sagenkreise des Mittelalters," Leipsig, 1842, p. 191.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	296	296	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	About	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Wilson	Wilson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Somadeva	Somadeva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Origin	Origin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pataliputra	Pataliputra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Essays	essay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
29	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	168-9	168-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:desc	_	_
34	Rost	Rost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Deslongchamps	deslongchamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Essai	Essai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	sur	sur	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	dep	_	_
44	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	flat:foreign	_	_
45	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	46	compound	_	_
46	Indiennes	Indiennes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	1838	1838	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
54	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	53	flat	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	Graesse	Graesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	Sagenkreise	Sagenkreise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	parataxis	_	_
61	Mittelalters	Mittelalters	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	_
64	Leipsig	Leipsig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	1842	1842	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	64	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	nmod:unmarked	_	_
69	191	191	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	61	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | 296 | Wilson  Professor's note |  | Somadeva's story of the Origin of Pataliputra |  | Essays  i. p.  Paris and p. and Graesse *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 2 | **de** *in a quote* | present | Sagenkreise | Mittelalters  Leipsig |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **note** |  | Wilson  Professor |  |  | Somadeva's story of the Origin of Pataliputra |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
| 4 | **refer** |  | Rost  Dr. |  |  |  |  | to L. Deslongchamps  Essai | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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