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title: Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the _Byliny_: his great feat i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the _Byliny_: his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber. Who acts: Ilyá, great feat. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 165

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Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the \_Byliny\_: his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber.

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**Who acts:** Ilyá, great feat · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one, slaying

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilyá, great feat), 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:pg62509:41:165
# text = Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the _Byliny_: his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber.
1	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Byliny	Byliny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	slaying	slaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ilyá | one |  |  |  | of the heroes of the Byliny | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ilyá's great feat | the slaying |  |  |  | of the Nightingale Robber | tree rules |

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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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