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title: _The Sister of the Sun._ The Russian commentator in the compilation,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _The Sister of the Sun._ The Russian commentator in the compilation, from which these stories are drawn, states that this is the expression for the dawn. Who acts: this. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 113

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\_The Sister of the Sun.\_ The Russian commentator in the compilation, from which these stories are drawn, states that this is the expression for the dawn.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** draw, be · **To what, where:** stories, Russian commentator, expression, Sister

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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 (this), 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:pg62509:40:113
# text = _The Sister of the Sun._ The Russian commentator in the compilation, from which these stories are drawn, states that this is the expression for the dawn.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	commentator	commentator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	compilation	compilation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present · passive |  | this stories |  | the Russian commentator in the compilation |  | states *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | the expression |  |  | dawn |  | 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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