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title: _Buyán_ is a kind of fairy hill like the _Tír n’an óg_ of the Irish… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Buyán_ is a kind of fairy hill like the _Tír n’an óg_ of the Irish folk-tales, the land of youth, and cannot probably be assigned to any physical geography. Who acts: Buyán, kind. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 55

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\_Buyán\_ is a kind of fairy hill like the \_Tír n’an óg\_ of the Irish folk-tales, the land of youth, and cannot probably be assigned to any physical geography.

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**Who acts:** Buyán, kind · **What happens:** be, óg, not assign · **To what, where:** kind, Irish folk tales, physical geography

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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 (Buyán, kind), 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:pg62509:40:55
# text = _Buyán_ is a kind of fairy hill like the _Tír n’an óg_ of the Irish folk-tales, the land of youth, and cannot probably be assigned to any physical geography.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Buyán	Buyán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Tír	Tír	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	n’an	n'an	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
15	óg	óg	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
37	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Buyán | a kind |  |  |  | of fairy hill | tree rules |
| 2 | **óg** | gerund | a kind *not said here* | the Irish folk tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **assign** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to any physical geography *goal*; probably *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: to geography=Goal |

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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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