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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 28

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He is always of popular origin and, as such, at variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court.

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

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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:pg62509:40:28
# text = He is always of popular origin and, as such, at variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	variance	variance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	semi-Scandinavian	semi-scandinavian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  | of popular origin and such variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court; such variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court *conj*; always *property* | 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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