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title: _ An ancient city of Russia on the Dniepr, a little higher up than K… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ An ancient city of Russia on the Dniepr, a little higher up than Kíev. 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 125

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\_ An ancient city of Russia on the Dniepr, a little higher up than Kíev.

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**To what, where:** ancient city

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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: 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:pg62509:39:125
# text = _ An ancient city of Russia on the Dniepr, a little higher up than Kíev.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dniepr	Dniepr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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