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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 145

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This is \_Gore\_, or Woe, who is frequently represented in popular poetry--sometimes under the name of \_Beda\_ or Misery--as chasing and ultimately destroying the unhappy victims of destiny.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, represent, chase, destroy, name · **To what, where:** Gore, Woe, unhappy victims, Beda

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg22373:35:145
# text = This is _Gore_, or Woe, who is frequently represented in popular poetry--sometimes under the name of _Beda_ or Misery--as chasing and ultimately destroying the unhappy victims of destiny.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Gore	Gore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Beda	Beda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Misery	Misery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | Gore |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | present · passive |  | Woe |  |  |  | in popular poetry and the name of Beda or Misery; frequently *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in poetry=Attribute |
| 3 | **chase** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund |  | the unhappy victims of destiny |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | Beda or Misery |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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