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title: _ Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the Kíev cycle; he derives h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the Kíev cycle; he derives his strength from mystical sources of Mother Earth, and his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber. Who acts: _, great feat. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tr
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 26

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\_ Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the Kíev cycle; he derives his strength from mystical sources of Mother Earth, and his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber.

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**Who acts:** \_, great feat · **What happens:** be, derive · **To what, where:** one, strength, mystical sources, slaying

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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 (\_, great feat), 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:pg62509:40:26
# text = _ Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the Kíev cycle; he derives his strength from mystical sources of Mother Earth, and his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	derives	derive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	slaying	slaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | \_ | one |  |  |  | of the heroes of the Kíev cycle | tree rules |
| 2 | **derive** | present | \_ | \_'s strength |  | mystical sources of Mother |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent strength=Result from source=Material |
| 3 | **is a** | present | \_'s great feat | the slaying |  |  |  | of the Nightingale Robber | 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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