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title: _ A city in the Vitebsk Province bordering on Poland. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ A city in the Vitebsk Province bordering on Poland. Who acts: city. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 104

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\_ A city in the Vitebsk Province bordering on Poland.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** border · **To what, where:** Poland, city

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), 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:pg62509:40:104
# text = _ A city in the Vitebsk Province bordering on Poland.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Vitebsk	Vitebsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	bordering	border	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **border** | gerund | a city in the Vitebsk Province *not said here* |  |  | Poland |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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