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title: In the story of St. Nicholas and St. Elias his beneficent character… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the story of St. Nicholas and St. Elias his beneficent character is clearly shown. 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 120

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In the story of St. Nicholas and St. Elias his beneficent character is clearly shown.

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**What happens:** show · **To what, where:** beneficent character

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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: 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:pg62509:40:120
# text = In the story of St. Nicholas and St. Elias his beneficent character is clearly shown.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Elias	Elias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beneficent	beneficent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · passive |  | St.'s beneficent character |  |  |  | in the story of Nicholas  St. and Elias  St.; clearly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in story=Topic |

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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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