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description: [466] The word by which the husband here designates his wife is _zakon_, which properly signifies (1) law, (2) marriage. Who acts: husband, word, zakon. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 125

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\[466\] The word by which the husband here designates his wife is \_zakon\_, which properly signifies (1) law, (2) marriage.

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**Who acts:** husband, word, zakon · **What happens:** designate, be, signify · **To what, where:** wife, zakon, 1 law

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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 (husband, word, zakon), 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:pg22373:62:125
# text = [466] The word by which the husband here designates his wife is _zakon_, which properly signifies (1) law, (2) marriage.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	466	466	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	designates	designate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	zakon	zakon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | present | the husband | husband's wife |  |  |  | by the word | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the word | zakon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **signify** | present | zakon | 1 law and 2 marriage |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot law=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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