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description: The epithet ‘deathless’ does not mean indestructible, but that he can only be slain in an extraordinary manner and will not die in a natural way. Who acts: epithet. 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 71

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The epithet ‘deathless’ does not mean indestructible, but that he can only be slain in an extraordinary manner and will not die in a natural way.

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**Who acts:** epithet · **What happens:** not mean, slay, not die · **To what, where:** epithet, extraordinary manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (epithet), 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:pg62509:40:71
# text = The epithet ‘deathless’ does not mean indestructible, but that he can only be slain in an extraordinary manner and will not die in a natural way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	epithet	epithet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	deathless	deathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	indestructible	indestructible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | the epithet |  |  |  |  | indestructible *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **slay** | can · passive |  | epithet |  | a extraordinary manner |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **die** | future |  |  |  |  |  | in a natural way | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Attribute |

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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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