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title: Y consonantally, as in English ‘_y_et’; as a vowel like ‘i’ in ‘w_i_… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Y consonantally, as in English ‘_y_et’; as a vowel like ‘i’ in ‘w_i_ll.’ 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 92

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Y consonantally, as in English ‘\_y\_et’; as a vowel like ‘i’ in ‘w\_i\_ll.’

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**To what, where:** ll

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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:pg62509:1:93
# text = Y consonantally, as in English ‘_y_et’; as a vowel like ‘i’ in ‘w_i_ll.’
1	Y	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	consonantally	consonantally	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	y	y	X	GW	_	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	et	ET	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	w	w	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	ll	ll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	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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