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title: _ The _bogatýr_ is the Russian Knight, but is absolutely unlike any… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The _bogatýr_ is the Russian Knight, but is absolutely unlike any Western romantic notion. Who acts: bogatýr. 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 112

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\_ The \_bogatýr\_ is the Russian Knight, but is absolutely unlike any Western romantic notion.

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**Who acts:** bogatýr · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Russian Knight

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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 (bogatýr), 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:pg62509:39:112
# text = _ The _bogatýr_ is the Russian Knight, but is absolutely unlike any Western romantic notion.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bogatýr	bogatýr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
16	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the bogatýr | the Russian Knight but any Western romantic notion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the bogatýr *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unlike any Western romantic notion; absolutely *property* | 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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