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title: [464] _Prolub'_ (for _prorub'_), a hole cut in the ice, and kept ope… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [464] _Prolub'_ (for _prorub'_), a hole cut in the ice, and kept open, for the purpose of getting at the water. Who acts: purpose. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 122

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\[464\] \_Prolub'\_ (for \_prorub'\_), a hole cut in the ice, and kept open, for the purpose of getting at the water.

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**Who acts:** purpose · **What happens:** cut, keep, get · **To what, where:** hole, ice, water

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purpose), 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:pg22373:62:122
# text = [464] _Prolub'_ (for _prorub'_), a hole cut in the ice, and kept open, for the purpose of getting at the water.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	464	464	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Prolub	Prolub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	prorub	prorub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle |  | a hole *not said here* |  | the ice |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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