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description: [71] The _chort_ of this legend is evidently akin to the devil himself, whom traditions frequently connect with blacksmiths; but his prototype, in the original form of this story, was doubtless a demigod or demon. Who acts: chort, prototype. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 167

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\[71\] The \_chort\_ of this legend is evidently akin to the devil himself, whom traditions frequently connect with blacksmiths; but his prototype, in the original form of this story, was doubtless a demigod or demon.

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**Who acts:** chort, prototype · **What happens:** be, connect, form · **To what, where:** devil, story

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chort, prototype), 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:pg22373:18:167
# text = [71] The _chort_ of this legend is evidently akin to the devil himself, whom traditions frequently connect with blacksmiths; but his prototype, in the original form of this story, was doubtless a demigod or demon.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	chort	chort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	akin	akin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	connect	connect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	blacksmiths	blacksmith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	prototype	prototype	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	demigod	demigod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the chort *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this legend; to the devil; akin, evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | present | chort | the devil |  |  |  | with blacksmiths; frequently *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient with blacksmith=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | tradition's prototype |  |  |  |  | a demigod or demon *obl:unmarked*; doubtless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | this story |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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