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title: The name-days of these saints are December 6th and July 20th. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The name-days of these saints are December 6th and July 20th. Who acts: name days. 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 16

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The name-days of these saints are December 6th and July 20th.

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**Who acts:** name days · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 6th

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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 (name days), 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:pg62509:40:16
# text = The name-days of these saints are December 6th and July 20th.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	saints	saint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	6th	6th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	20th	20th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the name days of this saints | 6th and 20th  July |  |  | december | 20th  July *conj* | 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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