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title: This particular story portrays some of the personifications and alle… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This particular story portrays some of the personifications and allegorizings of the common acts of life; all of which have their appropriate blessing or grace. Who acts: particular story, all, life, acts. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency t
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 4

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This particular story portrays some of the personifications and allegorizings of the common acts of life; all of which have their appropriate blessing or grace.

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**Who acts:** particular story, all, life, acts · **What happens:** portray, have, act, bless · **To what, where:** some, appropriate blessing

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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 (particular story, all, life, 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:pg62509:40:4
# text = This particular story portrays some of the personifications and allegorizings of the common acts of life; all of which have their appropriate blessing or grace.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	portrays	portray	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	personifications	personification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	allegorizings	allegorizing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **portray** | present | this particular story | some of the personifications and allegorizings of the common acts of life |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | all | acts's appropriate blessing or grace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient |
| 3 | **act** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **bless** |  | acts *= act* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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