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title: A TALE OF THE DEAD — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A TALE OF THE DEAD Who acts: DEAD. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 64

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A TALE OF THE DEAD

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**Who acts:** DEAD · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** TALE · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DEAD), 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:pg62509:2:64
# text = A TALE OF THE DEAD
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TALE	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	DEAD	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **tell** |  | the DEAD |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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