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title: Another Slavonic scholar, Mr Morfill, has also frequently alluded to… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another Slavonic scholar, Mr Morfill, has also frequently alluded to them in terms of enthusiastic but by no means extravagant praise. Who acts: no. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 22

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Another Slavonic scholar, Mr Morfill, has also frequently alluded to them in terms of enthusiastic but by no means extravagant praise.

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**Who acts:** no · **What happens:** allude, mean · **To what, where:** Slavonic scholar, Zhelekhovsky, terms, extravagant praise

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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 (no), 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:pg29672:1:22
# text = Another Slavonic scholar, Mr Morfill, has also frequently alluded to them in terms of enthusiastic but by no means extravagant praise.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	Morfill	Morfill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	alluded	allude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	enthusiastic	enthusiastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	extravagant	extravagant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allude** | present · perfect · passive |  | another Slavonic scholar | Zhelekhovsky | terms of enthusiastic |  | frequently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | no | extravagant praise |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Topic |

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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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