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title: L when hard (e.g. before a, o, u) something like _ll_ in ‘pu_ll_’; w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: L when hard (e.g. before a, o, u) something like _ll_ in ‘pu_ll_’; when soft (e.g. before e, i) like _l_ in French ‘vi_l_.’ 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 89

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L when hard (e.g. before a, o, u) something like \_ll\_ in ‘pu\_ll\_’; when soft (e.g. before e, i) like \_l\_ in French ‘vi\_l\_.’

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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:pg62509:1:90
# text = L when hard (e.g. before a, o, u) something like _ll_ in ‘pu_ll_’; when soft (e.g. before e, i) like _l_ in French ‘vi_l_.’
1	L	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	3	conj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	o	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ll	ll	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	pu	pu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ll	ll	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	e	e	INTJ	UH	_	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	l	l	X	GW	_	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	vi	vi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	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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