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title: His apparel is generally that of the grave, and he cannot endure to… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: His apparel is generally that of the grave, and he cannot endure to part with it, as may be seen from the following story-- Who acts: apparel, visitor. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 192

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His apparel is generally that of the grave, and he cannot endure to part with it, as may be seen from the following story--

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**Who acts:** apparel, visitor · **What happens:** be, not endure, see, follow · **To what, where:** part, following story

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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 (apparel, visitor), 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:pg22373:52:192
# text = His apparel is generally that of the grave, and he cannot endure to part with it, as may be seen from the following story--
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	apparel	apparel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | visitor's apparel |  |  |  |  | of the grave; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **endure** | can | visitor | part |  |  |  | with apparel | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Circumstance |
| 3 | **see** | may · passive | visitor *not said here* |  |  | the following story |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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