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title: [118] _Vikhor'_ (_vit'_ = to whirl), an agent often introduced for t… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [118] _Vikhor'_ (_vit'_ = to whirl), an agent often introduced for the purpose of abduction. Who acts: abduction. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, 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 15, sentence 164

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\[118\] \_Vikhor'\_ (\_vit'\_ = to whirl), an agent often introduced for the purpose of abduction.

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**Who acts:** abduction · **What happens:** whirl, introduce, purpose · **To what, where:** agent

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abduction), 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:pg22373:33:164
# text = [118] _Vikhor'_ (_vit'_ = to whirl), an agent often introduced for the purpose of abduction.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	118	118	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	vit	vit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	SYM	SYM	_	15	punct	_	_
13	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	whirl	whirl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	abduction	abduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  | a agent *not said here* |  |  |  | for the purpose of abduction; often *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | abduction |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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