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title: The stories relate experiences in succession, attempt no judgment, d… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories relate experiences in succession, attempt no judgment, do not even affirm their own credibility. Who acts: stories. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 42

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The stories relate experiences in succession, attempt no judgment, do not even affirm their own credibility.

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**Who acts:** stories · **What happens:** relate, attempt, not affirm · **To what, where:** experiences, succession, judgment, own credibility

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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 (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:pg62509:1:43
# text = The stories relate experiences in succession, attempt no judgment, do not even affirm their own credibility.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	affirm	affirm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	credibility	credibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | the stories | experiences |  |  |  | in succession *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent experience=Theme in succession=Goal |
| 2 | **attempt** | infinitive |  | no judgment |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **affirm** | infinitive · do-support |  | stories's own credibility |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credibility=Stimulus |

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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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