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title: Kulish, who has the merit of priority, was little more than a pionee… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kulish, who has the merit of priority, was little more than a pioneer, his contribution merely consisting of some dozen _kazki_ (_Maerchen_) and _kazochiki_ (_Maerchenlein_), incorporated in the second volume of his _Zapiski o yuzhnoi Rusi_ ("Descriptions of South Russia," Petrograd, 1856-7). Who ac
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 25

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Kulish, who has the merit of priority, was little more than a pioneer, his contribution merely consisting of some dozen \_kazki\_ (\_Maerchen\_) and \_kazochiki\_ (\_Maerchenlein\_), incorporated in the second volume of his \_Zapiski o yuzhnoi Rusi\_ ("Descriptions of South Russia," Petrograd, 1856-7).

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**Who acts:** Kulish, contribution, selection · **What happens:** have, be, consist, incorporate, contribute, describe · **To what, where:** merit, kazki, contribution, second volume, South Russia

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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 (Kulish, contribution, selection), 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:pg29672:1:25
# text = Kulish, who has the merit of priority, was little more than a pioneer, his contribution merely consisting of some dozen _kazki_ (_Maerchen_) and _kazochiki_ (_Maerchenlein_), incorporated in the second volume of his _Zapiski o yuzhnoi Rusi_ ("Descriptions of South Russia," Petrograd, 1856-7).
1	Kulish	Kulish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	priority	priority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	kazki	kazki	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Maerchen	Maerchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	kazochiki	kazochiki	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Maerchenlein	Maerchenlein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	46	amod	_	_
46	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Zapiski	Zapiski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	o	o	X	GW	_	46	appos	_	_
52	yuzhnoi	yuzhnoi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	51	conj	_	_
53	Rusi	Rusi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	53	punct	_	_
55	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	Descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nsubj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	63	punct	_	_
63	Petrograd	Petrograd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
65	1856-7	1856-7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	63	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Kulish | the merit of priority |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Kulish |  |  |  |  | than a pioneer; selection's contribution *obl*; little, more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consist** | gerund | selection's contribution *not said here* | kazki |  |  |  | of some dozen; merely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **incorporate** | participle |  | selection's contribution *not said here* |  | the second volume |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **contribute** |  | selection |  |  |  |  |  | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **describe** *in a quote* |  |  | South Russia |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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