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title: Kh like German _ch_, or Scotch _ch_ in ‘lo_ch_.’ — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kh like German _ch_, or Scotch _ch_ in ‘lo_ch_.’ 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 88

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Kh like German \_ch\_, or Scotch \_ch\_ in ‘lo\_ch\_.’

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**To what, where:** Kh

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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:pg62509:1:89
# text = Kh like German _ch_, or Scotch _ch_ in ‘lo_ch_.’
1	Kh	Kh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	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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