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title: We have a dog here called Vazhko,[19] who can hear a wolf nine miles… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We have a dog here called Vazhko,[19] who can hear a wolf nine miles off." Who acts: We, dog. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 41

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We have a dog here called Vazhko,\[19\] who can hear a wolf nine miles off."

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**Who acts:** We, dog · **What happens:** have, call, hear · **To what, where:** dog, wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, dog), 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:pg29672:17:41
# text = We have a dog here called Vazhko,[19] who can hear a wolf nine miles off."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	Vazhko	Vazhko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	off	off	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a dog *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | can | a dog | a wolf |  |  |  | off *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |

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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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