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title: Latin _deus_) is probably of Lithuanian origin, and means any malefi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Latin _deus_) is probably of Lithuanian origin, and means any malefic power. Who acts: Latin. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 7

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Latin \_deus\_) is probably of Lithuanian origin, and means any malefic power.

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**Who acts:** Latin · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** malefic power

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Latin), 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:pg29672:2:7
# text = Latin _deus_) is probably of Lithuanian origin, and means any malefic power.
1	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	deus	deus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	malefic	malefic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Latin |  |  |  |  | of Lithuanian origin; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | any malefic power |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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