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title: This tale may be eponymous of geography; Svyatogór (_Svyáty Góry_, S… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This tale may be eponymous of geography; Svyatogór (_Svyáty Góry_, Sacred Mountains) Múrom is on the river Oka, in the Province of Vladímir, one of the oldest cities in Russia; the village of Karachárovo is not far off. Who acts: tale, Múrom, village. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afan
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 166

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This tale may be eponymous of geography; Svyatogór (\_Svyáty Góry\_, Sacred Mountains) Múrom is on the river Oka, in the Province of Vladímir, one of the oldest cities in Russia; the village of Karachárovo is not far off.

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**Who acts:** tale, Múrom, village · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** Svyatogór Sacred Mountains, river

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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 (tale, Múrom, village), 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:pg62509:41:166
# text = This tale may be eponymous of geography; Svyatogór (_Svyáty Góry_, Sacred Mountains) Múrom is on the river Oka, in the Province of Vladímir, one of the oldest cities in Russia; the village of Karachárovo is not far off.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	eponymous	eponymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	Svyatogór	Svyatogór	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Svyáty	Svyáty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Góry	Góry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	Múrom	Múrom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Oka	Oka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Karachárovo	Karachárovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
47	off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | this tale |  |  |  |  | of geography; Svyatogór Sacred Mountains *obl*; eponymous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Múrom | Svyatogór Sacred Mountains *not said here* |  | the river and the Province of Vladímir |  | Oka *appos*; the Province of Vladímir *conj*; one of the oldest cities in Russia *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the village of Karachárovo |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | 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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