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title: The characteristic thing to note is that the word is only found in R… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The characteristic thing to note is that the word is only found in Russian, and in no other Slavonic language, and is almost certainly of Tatar origin, the original form being something like _Bagadur_. Who acts: original form. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 116

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The characteristic thing to note is that the word is only found in Russian, and in no other Slavonic language, and is almost certainly of Tatar origin, the original form being something like \_Bagadur\_.

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**Who acts:** original form · **What happens:** note, be · **To what, where:** characteristic thing, Russian, something

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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 (original form), 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:pg62509:39:116
# text = The characteristic thing to note is that the word is only found in Russian, and in no other Slavonic language, and is almost certainly of Tatar origin, the original form being something like _Bagadur_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	note	note	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Tatar	Tatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	conj	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Bagadur	Bagadur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | to-infinitive |  | the characteristic thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present · passive |  | the characteristic thing |  | Russian |  | the word *nsubj:pass*; no other Slavonic language *parataxis*; find *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of Tatar origin; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund | the original form | something |  |  |  | like Bagadur | 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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