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title: The nearest analogy quoted is the whirling rampart in the _Mael Duin… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nearest analogy quoted is the whirling rampart in the _Mael Duinn_, but the Russian legend is evidently related and not derived. Who acts: nearest analogy, Russian legend. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 110

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The nearest analogy quoted is the whirling rampart in the \_Mael Duinn\_, but the Russian legend is evidently related and not derived.

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**Who acts:** nearest analogy, Russian legend · **What happens:** quote, whirl, be, not derive · **To what, where:** nearest analogy, whirling rampart, Mael

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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 (nearest analogy, Russian legend), 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:pg62509:39:110
# text = The nearest analogy quoted is the whirling rampart in the _Mael Duinn_, but the Russian legend is evidently related and not derived.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	analogy	analogy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	rampart	rampart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Mael	Mael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Duinn	Duinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle |  | the nearest analogy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **whirl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the nearest analogy | the whirling rampart |  | the Mael |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Russian legend |  |  |  |  | evidently, related *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **derive** | participle | the Russian legend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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