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title: There is an interesting Bulgarian legend in which St. George appears… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is an interesting Bulgarian legend in which St. George appears in his Christian capacity of dragon-slayer, but surrounded by personages belonging to heathen mythology. Who acts: interesting Bulgarian legend, George, personages. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovi
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 76

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There is an interesting Bulgarian legend in which St. George appears in his Christian capacity of dragon-slayer, but surrounded by personages belonging to heathen mythology.

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**Who acts:** interesting Bulgarian legend, George, personages · **What happens:** be, appear, surround, belong · **To what, where:** interesting Bulgarian legend

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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 (interesting Bulgarian legend, George, personages), 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:pg22373:58:76
# text = There is an interesting Bulgarian legend in which St. George appears in his Christian capacity of dragon-slayer, but surrounded by personages belonging to heathen mythology.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Bulgarian	bulgarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	slayer	slayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:agent	_	_
25	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a interesting Bulgarian legend |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | present | George  St. |  |  | a interesting Bulgarian legend |  | in George's Christian capacity of dragon slayer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **surround** | participle | George  St. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | personages *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to heathen mythology | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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