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title: [30] A pood = forty pounds. — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [30] A pood = forty pounds. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 55

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\[30\] A pood = forty pounds.

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg29672:26:55
# text = [30] A pood = forty pounds.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pood	pood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	7	case	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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