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title: But near by there was a thick forest, and there a knight lived who w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But near by there was a thick forest, and there a knight lived who was blind but very strong. Who acts: knight. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 112

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But near by there was a thick forest, and there a knight lived who was blind but very strong.

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

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight), 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:pg62509:38:113
# text = But near by there was a thick forest, and there a knight lived who was blind but very strong.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a knight |  |  | there |  | live *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; blind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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