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title: Historically, his ancestry is the dread Tatar, in which figure all t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Historically, his ancestry is the dread Tatar, in which figure all the previous Turanian tribes that overran medieval Russia have been confounded. Who acts: ancestry, dread. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

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Historically, his ancestry is the dread Tatar, in which figure all the previous Turanian tribes that overran medieval Russia have been confounded.

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**Who acts:** ancestry, dread · **What happens:** be, figure, confound · **To what, where:** dread, overran medieval Russia

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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 (ancestry, dread), 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:pg62509:1:56
# text = Historically, his ancestry is the dread Tatar, in which figure all the previous Turanian tribes that overran medieval Russia have been confounded.
1	Historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Tatar	Tatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	figure	figure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Turanian	turanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	ccomp	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
19	overran	overran	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	confounded	confound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Koshchéy's ancestry | the dread |  |  |  | Tatar *appos*; historically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **figure** | present | the dread |  |  |  |  | all previous Turanian tribes *ccomp* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **confound** | present · perfect · passive |  | overran medieval Russia |  |  |  | all previous Turanian tribes *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |

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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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