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title: But, before venturing on a brief account of the tales, something mus… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, before venturing on a brief account of the tales, something must be premised as to the position occupied by folk-tales in the cultural development of a people. Who acts: tales. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 20

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But, before venturing on a brief account of the tales, something must be premised as to the position occupied by folk-tales in the cultural development of a people.

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**Who acts:** tales · **What happens:** venture, premise, occupy, account, develop · **To what, where:** brief account, something, position, tales, people

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:21
# text = But, before venturing on a brief account of the tales, something must be premised as to the position occupied by folk-tales in the cultural development of a people.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	venturing	venture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	premised	premise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | gerund |  |  |  | a brief account of the tales |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **premise** | must · passive | the tales *not said here* | something |  |  |  | as the position | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **occupy** | participle |  | the position *not said here* |  |  |  | by folk tales in the cultural development of a people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | the tales |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **develop** |  |  | a people |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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