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title: The present attempt to popularize these Cossack stories is, I believ… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The present attempt to popularize these Cossack stories is, I believe, the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English. Who acts: I. 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 31

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The present attempt to popularize these Cossack stories is, I believe, the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** popularize, be, make · **To what, where:** Cossack stories, present attempt, Ruthenian

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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 (I), 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:pg29672:1:31
# text = The present attempt to popularize these Cossack stories is, I believe, the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	popularize	popularize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Ruthenian	Ruthenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **popularize** | to-infinitive |  | this Cossack stories |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | I | the present attempt *not said here* |  |  |  | believe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle · passive |  | the present attempt |  | Ruthenian | ever | into English | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into english=Product |

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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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