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title: It may-be far, it may-be short, he at last reached that distant land… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It may-be far, it may-be short, he at last reached that distant land where the Jews crucified Christ. Who acts: road, Christ, distant land. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 5

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It may-be far, it may-be short, he at last reached that distant land where the Jews crucified Christ.

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**Who acts:** road, Christ, distant land · **What happens:** be, reach, crucify · **To what, where:** Christ

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, Christ, distant land), 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:pg62509:10:5
# text = It may-be far, it may-be short, he at last reached that distant land where the Jews crucified Christ.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	crucified	crucify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | may | road |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Christ |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **crucify** | past | distant land | Christ |  |  |  | the Jews *nsubj* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christ=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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