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title: There are some few satires; but the large majority cannot be readily… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There are some few satires; but the large majority cannot be readily classified. Who acts: few satires. 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 72

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There are some few satires; but the large majority cannot be readily classified.

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**Who acts:** few satires · **What happens:** be, not classify · **To what, where:** large majority

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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 (few satires), 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:pg62509:1:73
# text = There are some few satires; but the large majority cannot be readily classified.
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	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	satires	satire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | some few satires |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **classify** | can · passive |  | the large majority |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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