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title: His head is as big as a beer cauldron, and his shoulders a _sazhén_… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His head is as big as a beer cauldron, and his shoulders a _sazhén_ broad. Who acts: head, shoulders. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 113

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His head is as big as a beer cauldron, and his shoulders a \_sazhén\_ broad.

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**Who acts:** head, shoulders · **What happens:** be, sazhén

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, shoulders), 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:pg62509:31:113
# text = His head is as big as a beer cauldron, and his shoulders a _sazhén_ broad.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sazhén	sazhén	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
18	broad	broad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | man's head |  |  |  |  | as a beer cauldron; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sazhén** |  | man's shoulders |  |  |  |  | broad *conj* | 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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