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title: In Russian folk-tale there is nothing incongruous in a man having as… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In Russian folk-tale there is nothing incongruous in a man having as his sons a boy, a crow and a hawk or an eagle: or as in ‘_Márya Morévna_,’ where the marriage of Iván with a beautiful princess and of his two sisters with the eagle and the crow are all of them equally plausible. Who acts: nothing
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 20

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In Russian folk-tale there is nothing incongruous in a man having as his sons a boy, a crow and a hawk or an eagle: or as in ‘\_Márya Morévna\_,’ where the marriage of Iván with a beautiful princess and of his two sisters with the eagle and the crow are all of them equally plausible.

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**Who acts:** nothing, man, Márya · **What happens:** be, have, marry · **To what, where:** Russian folk tale, Iván

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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 (nothing, man, Márya), 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:pg62509:40:20
# text = In Russian folk-tale there is nothing incongruous in a man having as his sons a boy, a crow and a hawk or an eagle: or as in ‘_Márya Morévna_,’ where the marriage of Iván with a beautiful princess and of his two sisters with the eagle and the crow are all of them equally plausible.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
9	incongruous	incongruous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
35	Morévna	Morévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	64	punct	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	64	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
59	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
60	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	64	nsubj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nmod	_	_
63	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	plausible	plausible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | Russian folk tale; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as man's sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Márya |  |  |  |  | the marriage of Iván with a beautiful princess and crow's two sisters with the eagle and the crow *nsubj*; equally, plausible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** |  |  | Iván |  |  |  | with a beautiful princess and crow's two sisters with the eagle and the crow | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient with=obl |

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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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