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description: He cried aloud, "If there be a living man there, let him make answer! who has slain this mighty host?" Who acts: Anna. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 37

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He cried aloud, "If there be a living man there, let him make answer! who has slain this mighty host?"

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**Who acts:** Anna · **What happens:** cry, be, let, make, slay · **To what, where:** living man, Anna, answer, mighty host · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna), 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:pg22373:22:37
# text = He cried aloud, "If there be a living man there, let him make answer! who has slain this mighty host?"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Anna |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a living man |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Anna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Anna *not said here* | answer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
| 5 | **slay** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | this mighty host |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=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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