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title: His principal heroic episode is told in the prose ballad in this boo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His principal heroic episode is told in the prose ballad in this book entitled ‘Alyósha Popóvich.’ 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 103

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His principal heroic episode is told in the prose ballad in this book entitled ‘Alyósha Popóvich.’

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**What happens:** tell, entitle · **To what, where:** principal heroic episode, Alyósha, prose ballad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg62509:39:103
# text = His principal heroic episode is told in the prose ballad in this book entitled ‘Alyósha Popóvich.’
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Vladímir's principal heroic episode |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **entitle** | past |  | Alyósha |  | the prose ballad in this book |  |  | 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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