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title: _ This may be translated earls, but in the Russian social scale it o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ This may be translated earls, but in the Russian social scale it only meant the bigger men, the seigneurs. Who acts: scale. 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 47

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\_ This may be translated earls, but in the Russian social scale it only meant the bigger men, the seigneurs.

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**Who acts:** scale · **What happens:** translate, mean · **To what, where:** This, bigger men

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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 (scale), 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:pg62509:41:47
# text = _ This may be translated earls, but in the Russian social scale it only meant the bigger men, the seigneurs.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	earls	earl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	seigneurs	seigneur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | may · passive |  | This |  |  |  | earls *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | past | scale | the bigger men and the seigneurs |  |  |  | in the Russian social scale | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot man=Theme in scale=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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