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title: As far as an analytic language, like modern English, can render so h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As far as an analytic language, like modern English, can render so highly inflected a tongue as Russian, the translator has tried to keep strictly to the style and diction of the originals, which are the undoctored traditional stories. Who acts: Russian, originals. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales»
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 81

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As far as an analytic language, like modern English, can render so highly inflected a tongue as Russian, the translator has tried to keep strictly to the style and diction of the originals, which are the undoctored traditional stories.

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**Who acts:** Russian, originals · **What happens:** render, inflect, try, keep, be · **To what, where:** tongue, translator, undoctored traditional stories

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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, originals), 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:pg62509:1:82
# text = As far as an analytic language, like modern English, can render so highly inflected a tongue as Russian, the translator has tried to keep strictly to the style and diction of the originals, which are the undoctored traditional stories.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	analytic	analytic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	render	render	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	inflected	inflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	translator	translator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	diction	diction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	originals	original	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	undoctored	undoctored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | can |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **inflect** | participle |  | a tongue |  |  |  | as Russian; highly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | present · perfect · passive | Russian *not said here* | the translator |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Russian *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the style and diction of the originals and the undoctored traditional stories; strictly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the originals and the undoctored traditional stories | the undoctored traditional stories |  |  |  |  | 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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