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title: [407] The _kosa_ or single braid in which Russian girls wear their h… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [407] The _kosa_ or single braid in which Russian girls wear their hair. Who acts: Russian girls. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, 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 5, sentence 50

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\[407\] The \_kosa\_ or single braid in which Russian girls wear their hair.

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**Who acts:** Russian girls · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** hair, single braid

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian girls), 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:pg22373:55:50
# text = [407] The _kosa_ or single braid in which Russian girls wear their hair.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	407	407	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	kosa	kosa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	braid	braid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Russian girls | girls's hair |  | single braid |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source |

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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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