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title: _ In Russia St. Nicholas is the most popular miracle worker amongst… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ In Russia St. Nicholas is the most popular miracle worker amongst all the saints. Who acts: _. 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 119

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\_ In Russia St. Nicholas is the most popular miracle worker amongst all the saints.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular miracle worker

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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 (\_), 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:pg62509:40:119
# text = _ In Russia St. Nicholas is the most popular miracle worker amongst all the saints.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	miracle	miracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	saints	saint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | \_ in Russia Nicholas  St. | the popular miracle worker |  |  |  | amongst all saints | 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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