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title: Whichever of the two should marry first was to invite his comrade to… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whichever of the two should marry first was to invite his comrade to his wedding. Who acts: two, Whichever. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 139

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Whichever of the two should marry first was to invite his comrade to his wedding.

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**Who acts:** two, Whichever · **What happens:** marry, be, wed · **To what, where:** Whichever

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, Whichever), 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:pg22373:52:139
# text = Whichever of the two should marry first was to invite his comrade to his wedding.
1	Whichever	Whichever	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	invite	invite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | should | the two | Whichever *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whichever=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Whichever |  |  |  |  | to Whichever's wedding; invite *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wed** |  | Whichever |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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