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title: He is always given the uncomplimentary _soubriquet_ of the ‘Mocker o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He is always given the uncomplimentary _soubriquet_ of the ‘Mocker of Women.’ 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 102

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He is always given the uncomplimentary \_soubriquet\_ of the ‘Mocker of Women.’

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Vladímir

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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: 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:pg62509:39:102
# text = He is always given the uncomplimentary _soubriquet_ of the ‘Mocker of Women.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	uncomplimentary	uncomplimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	soubriquet	soubriquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Mocker	Mocker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Women	Women	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | Vladímir |  |  |  | the uncomplimentary soubriquet of the Mocker of Women *obj*; always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient soubriquet=Theme |

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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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