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title: She is also called in the Russian Devítsa (maiden), which may be a c… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She is also called in the Russian Devítsa (maiden), which may be a corruption of Dívitsa, the feminine of _Div_, one of the ancient pagan deities of Russia. Who acts: Russian Devítsa. 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 4

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She is also called in the Russian Devítsa (maiden), which may be a corruption of Dívitsa, the feminine of \_Div\_, one of the ancient pagan deities of Russia.

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**Who acts:** Russian Devítsa · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** Germany, corruption · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Russian Devítsa), 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:pg62509:41:4
# text = She is also called in the Russian Devítsa (maiden), which may be a corruption of Dívitsa, the feminine of _Div_, one of the ancient pagan deities of Russia.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Devítsa	Devítsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Dívitsa	Dívitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	feminine	feminine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Div	Div	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	list	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	deities	deity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | Germany |  |  |  | the Russian Devítsa *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | may | the Russian Devítsa | a corruption |  |  |  | of Dívitsa | 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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