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title: The incidents follow almost haphazard; and at the end, the persons m… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The incidents follow almost haphazard; and at the end, the persons mentioned at the beginning may be forgotten; the stories are often almost as casual as real life. Who acts: incidents, stories. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 41

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The incidents follow almost haphazard; and at the end, the persons mentioned at the beginning may be forgotten; the stories are often almost as casual as real life.

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**Who acts:** incidents, stories · **What happens:** follow, mention, forget, be · **To what, where:** haphazard, persons, beginning, end

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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 (incidents, stories), 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:pg62509:1:42
# text = The incidents follow almost haphazard; and at the end, the persons mentioned at the beginning may be forgotten; the stories are often almost as casual as real life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	haphazard	haphazard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | the incidents | haphazard |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haphazard=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | the persons *not said here* |  |  | at the beginning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** | may · passive |  | the persons |  |  | at the end |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | as real life; almost, casual, often *property* | 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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