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title: _ Death is feminine in Russian and occurs all through the folk-lore… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Death is feminine in Russian and occurs all through the folk-lore as the visible figure of a skeleton whom they met by the way on the roadsides, and who may be cheated of her prey or dealt with like any other demon. Who acts: Death, lore. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Open
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 149

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\_ Death is feminine in Russian and occurs all through the folk-lore as the visible figure of a skeleton whom they met by the way on the roadsides, and who may be cheated of her prey or dealt with like any other demon.

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**Who acts:** Death, lore · **What happens:** be, occur, meet, cheat, deal, figure · **To what, where:** Russian, folk lore, skeleton, roadsides

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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 (Death, lore), 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:pg62509:39:149
# text = _ Death is feminine in Russian and occurs all through the folk-lore as the visible figure of a skeleton whom they met by the way on the roadsides, and who may be cheated of her prey or dealt with like any other demon.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	roadsides	roadside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Death |  |  | Russian |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present | Death *not said here* |  |  | the folk lore |  | as the visible figure of a skeleton | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through lore=Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | lore | a skeleton |  | the roadsides |  | by the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **cheat** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of Death's prey; who *nsubj:pass* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 5 | **deal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with any other demon | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with demon=Theme |
| 6 | **figure** |  |  | a skeleton |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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