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title: The semi-sacred legends of the days when Christ and his Apostles wal… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The semi-sacred legends of the days when Christ and his Apostles walked the earth, superficially may be compared with Grimm’s stories. Who acts: semi-sacred legends. 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 59

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The semi-sacred legends of the days when Christ and his Apostles walked the earth, superficially may be compared with Grimm’s stories.

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**Who acts:** semi-sacred legends · **What happens:** walk, compare · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (semi-sacred legends), 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:pg62509:1:60
# text = The semi-sacred legends of the days when Christ and his Apostles walked the earth, superficially may be compared with Grimm’s stories.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	semi-sacred	semi-sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Apostles	apostle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	superficially	superficially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the semi-sacred legends of the days | the earth |  |  |  | Christ and dread's Apostles *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **compare** | may · passive | the semi-sacred legends of the days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Grimm's stories; superficially *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with story=Co-Patient |

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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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