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title: Dmítri and Vasíli were envious of their younger brother Iván that he… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dmítri and Vasíli were envious of their younger brother Iván that he had succeeded in pulling the feather out of the Bird of Light’s tail. Who acts: Dmítri, IVÁN. 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 77

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Dmítri and Vasíli were envious of their younger brother Iván that he had succeeded in pulling the feather out of the Bird of Light’s tail.

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**Who acts:** Dmítri, IVÁN · **What happens:** be, succeed, pull · **To what, where:** younger brother, feather, tail

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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 (Dmítri, IVÁN), 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:pg62509:10:77
# text = Dmítri and Vasíli were envious of their younger brother Iván that he had succeeded in pulling the feather out of the Bird of Light’s tail.
1	Dmítri	Dmítri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dmítri and Vasíli |  |  |  |  | of Dmítri's younger brother; envious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **succeed** | past · perfect | IVÁN *= iván* | Dmítri's younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund | IVÁN *= iván* *not said here* | the feather |  | Light's tail  the Bird |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out tail=Initial\_Location |

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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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