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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 68 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 68 It is a sin, says a time-honored tradition, for a woman to sew, or spin, or weave, or buck linen on a Friday, and similarly for a man to plait bast shoes, twine cord, and the like. **Who acts:** least · **What happens:** be, say, honor, sew, weave, buck · **To what, where:** sin, honored tradition, linen, bast shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:37:68 # text = It is a sin, says a time-honored tradition, for a woman to sew, or spin, or weave, or buck linen on a Friday, and similarly for a man to plait bast shoes, twine cord, and the like. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 honored honor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 weave weave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 buck buck VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 similarly similarly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 plait plait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 39 bast bast NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 twine twine NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | least | a sin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | a honored tradition or spin | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tradition=Topic | | 3 | **honor** | participle | | | | | time | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sew** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **weave** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **buck** | infinitive | | linen | | | friday | | tree rules | | 7 | **plait** | to-infinitive | | bast shoes and twine cord | | | | similarly *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/69/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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