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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 137

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\[185\] \_Prigovarivaya\_, the word generally used to express the action of a person who utters a charm accompanied by a gesture of the hand or finger.

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**Who acts:** person, hand · **What happens:** use, express, utter, accompany, act, gesture · **To what, where:** word, action, charm

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, hand), 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:pg22373:34:137
# text = [185] _Prigovarivaya_, the word generally used to express the action of a person who utters a charm accompanied by a gesture of the hand or finger.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	185	185	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Prigovarivaya	Prigovarivaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	utters	utter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the word *not said here* |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **express** | to-infinitive |  | the action of a person |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | present | a person | a charm |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charm=Topic |
| 4 | **accompany** | participle |  | a charm *not said here* |  |  |  | by a gesture of the hand or finger | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by gesture=Destination |
| 5 | **act** |  | a person |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **gesture** |  | the hand or finger |  |  |  |  |  | nom gesture «act 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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