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description: Numerous legends speak of the strange connection which exists between St. George and the Wolf. Who acts: Numerous legends, strange connection. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 45

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Numerous legends speak of the strange connection which exists between St. George and the Wolf.

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**Who acts:** Numerous legends, strange connection · **What happens:** speak, exist · **To what, where:** George · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numerous legends, strange connection), 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:pg22373:58:45
# text = Numerous legends speak of the strange connection which exists between St. George and the Wolf.
1	Numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Numerous legends |  |  |  |  | of the strange connection | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exist** | present | the strange connection |  |  | George  St. and the Wolf |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between george=Location |

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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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