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title: Shemyákin Sud, the court of Shemyák, is a proverbial expression for… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Shemyákin Sud, the court of Shemyák, is a proverbial expression for arbitrary judgments. Who acts: Shemyákin. 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 107

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Shemyákin Sud, the court of Shemyák, is a proverbial expression for arbitrary judgments.

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**Who acts:** Shemyákin · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** proverbial expression

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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 (Shemyákin), 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:pg62509:40:107
# text = Shemyákin Sud, the court of Shemyák, is a proverbial expression for arbitrary judgments.
1	Shemyákin	Shemyákin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	Sud	Sud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Shemyák	Shemyák	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	proverbial	proverbial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	arbitrary	arbitrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	judgments	judgment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Shemyákin | a proverbial expression |  |  |  | for arbitrary judgments | 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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