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title: They contain the usual incidents of transformations, magic, witches,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They contain the usual incidents of transformations, magic, witches, the valorous youngest son, the beautiful princess wronged by the evil stepmother,—in fact, the common Aryan stock, all tinged with the characteristic Slav temperament. Who acts: satires, common Aryan stock. A sentence of «Russian F
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 73

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They contain the usual incidents of transformations, magic, witches, the valorous youngest son, the beautiful princess wronged by the evil stepmother,—in fact, the common Aryan stock, all tinged with the characteristic Slav temperament.

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**Who acts:** satires, common Aryan stock · **What happens:** contain, wrong, ting · **To what, where:** usual incidents, beautiful princess, all

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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 (satires, common Aryan stock), 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:pg62509:1:74
# text = They contain the usual incidents of transformations, magic, witches, the valorous youngest son, the beautiful princess wronged by the evil stepmother,—in fact, the common Aryan stock, all tinged with the characteristic Slav temperament.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	transformations	transformation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	valorous	valorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	wronged	wrong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	tinged	ting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	Slav	Slav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
42	temperament	temperament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | satires *= satire* | the usual incidents of transformations and magic and witches and the valorous youngest son and fact  the common Aryan stock |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme |
| 2 | **wrong** | participle |  | the beautiful princess *not said here* |  |  |  | by the evil stepmother | tree rules |
| 3 | **ting** | participle · passive | the common Aryan stock *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with the characteristic and temperament | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location 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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