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title: _ As, in German folk-lore, the legends of Christ walking the earth w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ As, in German folk-lore, the legends of Christ walking the earth with His disciples are very frequent and characteristic. Who acts: legends, _. 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 127

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\_ As, in German folk-lore, the legends of Christ walking the earth with His disciples are very frequent and characteristic.

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**Who acts:** legends, \_ · **What happens:** walk, be · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (legends, \_), 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:pg62509:39:127
# text = _ As, in German folk-lore, the legends of Christ walking the earth with His disciples are very frequent and characteristic.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
2	As	As	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | the legends of Christ *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  | with \_'s disciples | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  | frequent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | \_ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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