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title: Some of the _bogatyrí_ are decidedly demi-gods; others more decisive… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the _bogatyrí_ are decidedly demi-gods; others more decisively human; but they all have some superhuman, it may be said inhuman, touch. Who acts: others. 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 114

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Some of the \_bogatyrí\_ are decidedly demi-gods; others more decisively human; but they all have some superhuman, it may be said inhuman, touch.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** be, have, say · **To what, where:** demi gods, superhuman · **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: who acts (others), 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:pg62509:39:114
# text = Some of the _bogatyrí_ are decidedly demi-gods; others more decisively human; but they all have some superhuman, it may be said inhuman, touch.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bogatyrí	bogatyrí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	demi	demi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
15	decisively	decisively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
29	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | some demi gods |  |  |  | decidedly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | decisively *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | others *= other* | some superhuman |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent superhuman=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | some demi gods |  |  |  | superhuman *nsubj*; inhuman *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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