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title: They are not bare records of fact, like the Chronicles; imagination… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They are not bare records of fact, like the Chronicles; imagination enters into their scope; non-human, miraculous incidents are allowable; their content is not a matter for faith or factual record; they may be called historical fiction, which, broadly taken, corresponded to actual events, and typif
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

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They are not bare records of fact, like the Chronicles; imagination enters into their scope; non-human, miraculous incidents are allowable; their content is not a matter for faith or factual record; they may be called historical fiction, which, broadly taken, corresponded to actual events, and typified the national strivings and ideals.

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**Who acts:** individuals, imagination, non-human miraculous incidents, content, matter · **What happens:** not be, enter, be, call, take, correspond · **To what, where:** bare records, scope, matter, individuals, historical fiction, national strivings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (individuals, imagination, non-human miraculous incidents, content), 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:pg62509:1:32
# text = They are not bare records of fact, like the Chronicles; imagination enters into their scope; non-human, miraculous incidents are allowable; their content is not a matter for faith or factual record; they may be called historical fiction, which, broadly taken, corresponded to actual events, and typified the national strivings and ideals.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	scope	scope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	non-human	non-human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	allowable	allowable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	factual	factual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
42	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	broadly	broadly	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	corresponded	correspond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	typified	typify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	strivings	striving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	ideals	ideal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | individuals *= individual* | bare records and the Chronicles |  |  |  | of fact; the Chronicles *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | present | imagination |  |  | individuals's scope |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into scope=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | non-human miraculous incidents |  |  |  |  | allowable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | individuals's content | a matter |  |  |  | for faith or factual record | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | may · passive | a matter *not said here* | individuals *= individual* |  |  |  | historical fiction *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **take** | participle · passive |  | historical fiction |  |  |  | broadly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **correspond** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to actual events | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **typify** | past | non-human miraculous incidents *not said here* | the national strivings and ideals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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