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title: G always hard, as in ‘_g_ive,’ ‘_g_ot’: never as in ‘gem.’ — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: G always hard, as in ‘_g_ive,’ ‘_g_ot’: never as in ‘gem.’ 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 86

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G always hard, as in ‘\_g\_ive,’ ‘\_g\_ot’: never as in ‘gem.’

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**To what, where:** G

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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:pg62509:1:87
# text = G always hard, as in ‘_g_ive,’ ‘_g_ot’: never as in ‘gem.’
1	G	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ive	ive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ot	ot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	‘	‘	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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