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title: To sum up, these undiluted products of the Russian people are a fait… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To sum up, these undiluted products of the Russian people are a faithful mirroring of life, as it appeared, casual; for the most part unfortunate, and inscrutable. Who acts: undiluted products, it. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

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To sum up, these undiluted products of the Russian people are a faithful mirroring of life, as it appeared, casual; for the most part unfortunate, and inscrutable.

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**Who acts:** undiluted products, it · **What happens:** sum up, undilut, be, appear · **To what, where:** faithful mirroring

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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 (undiluted products, it), 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:pg62509:1:52
# text = To sum up, these undiluted products of the Russian people are a faithful mirroring of life, as it appeared, casual; for the most part unfortunate, and inscrutable.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sum	sum	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	undiluted	undilut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mirroring	mirroring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	inscrutable	inscrutable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sum up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **undilut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this undiluted products of the Russian people | a faithful mirroring |  |  |  | of life | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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