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title: Thirdly, the word became confused with _kost’_, bone, and so came to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thirdly, the word became confused with _kost’_, bone, and so came to mean a skeleton or miser, and a wandering Jew. Who acts: word. 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 70

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Thirdly, the word became confused with \_kost’\_, bone, and so came to mean a skeleton or miser, and a wandering Jew.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** become, come, mean, wonder · **To what, where:** wandering Jew, skeleton

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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 (word), 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:pg62509:40:70
# text = Thirdly, the word became confused with _kost’_, bone, and so came to mean a skeleton or miser, and a wandering Jew.
1	Thirdly	thirdly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	kost	kost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the word |  |  |  |  | confused, thirdly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the word *not said here* | a wandering Jew |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | to-infinitive | the word *not said here* | a skeleton or miser |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Topic |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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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