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title: Like Linnroet among the Finns, Rudchenko took down the greater part… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Like Linnroet among the Finns, Rudchenko took down the greater part of these tales direct from the lips of the people. Who acts: Rudchenko, tales. 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 27

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Like Linnroet among the Finns, Rudchenko took down the greater part of these tales direct from the lips of the people.

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**Who acts:** Rudchenko, tales · **What happens:** take down, direct · **To what, where:** greater part, lips

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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 (Rudchenko, tales), 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:pg29672:1:27
# text = Like Linnroet among the Finns, Rudchenko took down the greater part of these tales direct from the lips of the people.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Linnroet	Linnroet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Finns	Finn	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Rudchenko	Rudchenko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	direct	direct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | past | Rudchenko | the greater part |  |  |  | like Linnroet among the Finns | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **direct** | present | this tales | the greater part *not said here* |  | the lips of the people |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |

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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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