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description: This particular story is probably a poetization of a geographical fact, but in all the Russian folk-lore the river-gods play a very great part. Who acts: particular story, river gods. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 17

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This particular story is probably a poetization of a geographical fact, but in all the Russian folk-lore the river-gods play a very great part.

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**Who acts:** particular story, river gods · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** poetization, great part

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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 (particular story, river gods), 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:pg62509:41:17
# text = This particular story is probably a poetization of a geographical fact, but in all the Russian folk-lore the river-gods play a very great part.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poetization	poetization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this particular story | a poetization but all Russian folk lore |  |  |  | of a geographical fact; all Russian folk lore *conj*; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | the river gods | a great part |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |

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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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