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title: He was an effeminate kind of person and perhaps one who rather incit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was an effeminate kind of person and perhaps one who rather incited others to effort by his jibes than by his prowess. Who acts: Vladímir. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 101

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He was an effeminate kind of person and perhaps one who rather incited others to effort by his jibes than by his prowess.

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**Who acts:** Vladímir · **What happens:** be, incite · **To what, where:** effeminate kind, others

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vladímir), 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:pg62509:39:101
# text = He was an effeminate kind of person and perhaps one who rather incited others to effort by his jibes than by his prowess.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	effeminate	effeminate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	incited	incite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	jibes	jibe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Vladímir | a effeminate kind |  |  |  | of person | tree rules |
| 2 | **incite** | past |  | others |  |  |  | to effort; by Vladímir's jibes than Vladímir's prowess; who *nsubj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=Patient |

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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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