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description: _ This picture of Sorrow as an ancient hag who pursues mankind throughout life is peculiarly Russian and is the theme of very many beautiful ballads. Who acts: ancient hag, life. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 115

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\_ This picture of Sorrow as an ancient hag who pursues mankind throughout life is peculiarly Russian and is the theme of very many beautiful ballads.

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**Who acts:** ancient hag, life · **What happens:** pursue, be · **To what, where:** mankind, theme, picture

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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 (ancient hag, life), 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:pg62509:40:115
# text = _ This picture of Sorrow as an ancient hag who pursues mankind throughout life is peculiarly Russian and is the theme of very many beautiful ballads.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pursues	pursue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | present | a ancient hag | mankind |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mankind=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | peculiarly, russian *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a ancient hag *not said here* | the theme |  |  |  | of many beautiful ballads | 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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