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title: The Gogs and Magogs are still alive and to this day are afraid of Al… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gogs and Magogs are still alive and to this day are afraid of Alexander. Who acts: Gogs. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 126

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The Gogs and Magogs are still alive and to this day are afraid of Alexander.

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**Who acts:** Gogs · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gogs), 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:pg62509:19:126
# text = The Gogs and Magogs are still alive and to this day are afraid of Alexander.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gogs	gog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Magogs	magog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Gogs and Magogs |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Gogs and Magogs *not said here* |  |  |  | day | of Alexander; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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