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title: He is intermediate between the ‘_elder bogatyri_,’ the earth-born Ti… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He is intermediate between the ‘_elder bogatyri_,’ the earth-born Tirans, and the human champions of the legendary Court of Vladímir. 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 27

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He is intermediate between the ‘\_elder bogatyri\_,’ the earth-born Tirans, and the human champions of the legendary Court of Vladímir.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** be, bear

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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:pg62509:40:27
# text = He is intermediate between the ‘_elder bogatyri_,’ the earth-born Tirans, and the human champions of the legendary Court of Vladímir.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	intermediate	intermediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bogatyri	bogatyri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Tirans	Tiran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  | between the elder bogatyri; ' the born Tirans; intermediate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | earth *compound* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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