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description: The sorcerers of the present day are supposed to be able to direct whirlwinds, and a not uncommon form of imprecation in some parts of Russia is "May the whirlwind carry thee off!" Who acts: May. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICA
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 165

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The sorcerers of the present day are supposed to be able to direct whirlwinds, and a not uncommon form of imprecation in some parts of Russia is "May the whirlwind carry thee off!"

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**Who acts:** May · **What happens:** suppose, be, direct, form · **To what, where:** sorcerers, parts, whirlwinds, whirlwind carry, imprecation

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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 (May), 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:pg22373:33:165
# text = The sorcerers of the present day are supposed to be able to direct whirlwinds, and a not uncommon form of imprecation in some parts of Russia is "May the whirlwind carry thee off!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	whirlwinds	whirlwind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	imprecation	imprecation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	whirlwind	whirlwind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	carry	carry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
34	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | the sorcerers of the present day |  | some parts of Russia |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **direct** | to-infinitive |  | whirlwinds |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent whirlwind=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | May | the whirlwind carry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | imprecation |  |  |  |  | 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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