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title: There are two personifications, which call for special attention, th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There are two personifications, which call for special attention, those of Death and of Sorrow. Who acts: two personifications. 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 69

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There are two personifications, which call for special attention, those of Death and of Sorrow.

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**Who acts:** two personifications · **What happens:** be, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (two personifications), 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:pg62509:1:70
# text = There are two personifications, which call for special attention, those of Death and of Sorrow.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	personifications	personification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | two personifications of that Death and Sorrow |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | two personifications of that Death and Sorrow |  |  |  |  | for special attention | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for attention=Recipient |

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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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