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title: _ Bryánsk in the Province of Orél contains wonderful woods which wer… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Bryánsk in the Province of Orél contains wonderful woods which were in ancient times impenetrable, and became the legendary home of magic, and of weird happenings. Who acts: Bryánsk, wonderful woods. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 122

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\_ Bryánsk in the Province of Orél contains wonderful woods which were in ancient times impenetrable, and became the legendary home of magic, and of weird happenings.

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**Who acts:** Bryánsk, wonderful woods · **What happens:** contain, be, become · **To what, where:** wonderful woods, legendary home

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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 (Bryánsk, wonderful woods), 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:pg62509:39:122
# text = _ Bryánsk in the Province of Orél contains wonderful woods which were in ancient times impenetrable, and became the legendary home of magic, and of weird happenings.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Bryánsk	Bryánsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Orél	Orél	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	impenetrable	impenetrable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	happenings	happening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Bryánsk in the Province of Orél | wonderful woods |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | wonderful woods |  |  |  | time | impenetrable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past |  | the legendary home of magic |  |  |  | of weird happenings | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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