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title: But the Russian Christ of the folk-tales is a good, just, honest pea… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Russian Christ of the folk-tales is a good, just, honest peasant, with democratic sympathies, and plenty of humour. Who acts: Russian Christ. 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 62

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But the Russian Christ of the folk-tales is a good, just, honest peasant, with democratic sympathies, and plenty of humour.

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**Who acts:** Russian Christ · **What happens:** be

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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 (Russian Christ), 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:pg62509:1:63
# text = But the Russian Christ of the folk-tales is a good, just, honest peasant, with democratic sympathies, and plenty of humour.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sympathies	sympathy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Russian Christ of the folk tales |  |  |  |  | honest peasant and democratic sympathies and humour *obl*; good *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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