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title: THE PRONUNCIATION OF RUSSIAN WORDS — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE PRONUNCIATION OF RUSSIAN WORDS 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 82

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THE PRONUNCIATION OF RUSSIAN WORDS

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**What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** PRONUNCIATION, RUSSIAN WORDS

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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: 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:pg62509:1:83
# text = THE PRONUNCIATION OF RUSSIAN WORDS
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PRONUNCIATION	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	RUSSIAN	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	WORDS	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **pronounce** |  |  | RUSSIAN WORDS |  |  |  |  | nom pronunciation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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