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title: It possesses a noble literature, numerous folk-songs, not inferior e… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It possesses a noble literature, numerous folk-songs, not inferior even to those of Serbia, and, what chiefly concerns us now, a copious collection of justly admired folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity, which are regarded, both in Russia and Poland, as quite unique of their kind. Who acts: S
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 20

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It possesses a noble literature, numerous folk-songs, not inferior even to those of Serbia, and, what chiefly concerns us now, a copious collection of justly admired folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity, which are regarded, both in Russia and Poland, as quite unique of their kind.

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**Who acts:** Sea · **What happens:** possess, concern, admire, regard · **To what, where:** noble literature, us, great antiquity

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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 (Sea), 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:pg29672:1:20
# text = It possesses a noble literature, numerous folk-songs, not inferior even to those of Serbia, and, what chiefly concerns us now, a copious collection of justly admired folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity, which are regarded, both in Russia and Poland, as quite unique of their kind.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
23	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	concerns	concern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	copious	copious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
34	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc:preconj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | Sea | a noble literature |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot literature=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** |  |  | us |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **admire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | justly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **regard** | present · passive |  | great antiquity |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme russia=Attribute |

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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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