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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 50

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To the \_zaplachki\_,\[28\] or laments, which are uttered on such occasions--frequently by hired wailers, who closely resemble the Corsican "vociferators," the modern Greek "myrologists"--allusions are sometimes made in the Skazkas.

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**Who acts:** hired wailers · **What happens:** utter, hire, resemble, make · **To what, where:** laments, such occasions, Corsican vociferators, zaplachki, Skazkas

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hired wailers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:13:50
# text = To the _zaplachki_,[28] or laments, which are uttered on such occasions--frequently by hired wailers, who closely resemble the Corsican "vociferators," the modern Greek "myrologists"--allusions are sometimes made in the Skazkas.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	zaplachki	zaplachki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	laments	lament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	wailers	wailer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Corsican	Corsican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	vociferators	vociferator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	myrologists	myrologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	44	advmod	_	_
44	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | present · passive | hired wailers and the modern Greek myrologists and allusions | laments |  | such occasions |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **hire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **resemble** | present | hired wailers and the modern Greek myrologists and allusions | the Corsican vociferators |  |  |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive |  | the zaplachki |  | the Skazkas |  | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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