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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 28

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First of all, the Chronicles, which are very full, very accurate, and, within the limits of the temporary concepts of possibility and science, absolutely true.

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**Who acts:** Chronicles · **What happens:** be, conceive · **To what, where:** Chronicles, possibility

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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 (Chronicles), 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:pg62509:1:29
# text = First of all, the Chronicles, which are very full, very accurate, and, within the limits of the temporary concepts of possibility and science, absolutely true.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	concepts	concept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Chronicles |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Chronicles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within the limits of the temporary concepts of possibility and science | tree rules |
| 4 | **conceive** |  |  | possibility and science |  |  |  |  | nom concept «cognition 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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