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title: Its territory embraces, roughly speaking, that vast plain which lies… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Its territory embraces, roughly speaking, that vast plain which lies between the Carpathians, the watershed of the Dnieper, and the Sea of Azov, with Lemberg and Kiev for its chief intellectual centres. Who acts: territory embraces, vast plain, Russian. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Ta
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 18

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Its territory embraces, roughly speaking, that vast plain which lies between the Carpathians, the watershed of the Dnieper, and the Sea of Azov, with Lemberg and Kiev for its chief intellectual centres.

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**Who acts:** territory embraces, vast plain, Russian · **What happens:** speak, lie, embrace · **To what, where:** Carpathians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (territory embraces, vast plain, Russian), 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:pg29672:1:18
# text = Its territory embraces, roughly speaking, that vast plain which lies between the Carpathians, the watershed of the Dnieper, and the Sea of Azov, with Lemberg and Kiev for its chief intellectual centres.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Carpathians	Carpathian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	watershed	watershed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Azov	Azov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Lemberg	Lemberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Kiev	Kiev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Russian's territory embraces and Russian's chief intellectual centres *not said here* |  |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | present | that vast plain |  |  | the Carpathians |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between carpathian=Location |
| 3 | **embrace** |  | Russian |  |  |  |  |  | nom embrace «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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