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description: An example of the invocations is given in a note to _The Midnight Dance_. 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 6

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An example of the invocations is given in a note to \_The Midnight Dance\_.

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**What happens:** give, exemplify · **To what, where:** example, note, invocations

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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: 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:pg62509:40:6
# text = An example of the invocations is given in a note to _The Midnight Dance_.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	invocations	invocation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Midnight	Midnight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | a example of the invocations |  | a note to the Midnight Dance |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **exemplify** |  |  | the invocations |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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