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title: Both figures appear as ghostly spirits, who persecute man, but yet c… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Both figures appear as ghostly spirits, who persecute man, but yet can be very efficaciously and roughly handled. Who acts: figures, ghostly spirits. 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 71

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Both figures appear as ghostly spirits, who persecute man, but yet can be very efficaciously and roughly handled.

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**Who acts:** figures, ghostly spirits · **What happens:** appear, persecute, handle · **To what, where:** man

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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 (figures, ghostly spirits), 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:pg62509:1:72
# text = Both figures appear as ghostly spirits, who persecute man, but yet can be very efficaciously and roughly handled.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	persecute	persecute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	efficaciously	efficaciously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | both figures |  |  |  |  | as ghostly spirits | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **persecute** | present | ghostly spirits | man |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **handle** | can · passive |  |  |  |  | yet | efficaciously, roughly *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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