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title: Meanwhile Sozh persuaded the Raven to fly straight to Dnieper, and,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Sozh persuaded the Raven to fly straight to Dnieper, and, as soon as it had come up with him to croak three times; he himself was to burrow under the earth, intending to leap to the surface at the cry of the Raven, and by that means to get before his brother. Who acts: Sozh, way, Dnieper, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 110

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Meanwhile Sozh persuaded the Raven to fly straight to Dnieper, and, as soon as it had come up with him to croak three times; he himself was to burrow under the earth, intending to leap to the surface at the cry of the Raven, and by that means to get before his brother.

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**Who acts:** Sozh, way, Dnieper, that, Raven · **What happens:** persuade, fly, come up, croak, be, intend · **To what, where:** Raven, Dnieper, earth, cry

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sozh, way, Dnieper, that), 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:pg22373:38:110
# text = Meanwhile Sozh persuaded the Raven to fly straight to Dnieper, and, as soon as it had come up with him to croak three times; he himself was to burrow under the earth, intending to leap to the surface at the cry of the Raven, and by that means to get before his brother.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Sozh	Sozh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	croak	croak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	burrow	burrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj	_	_
53	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	before	before	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | Sozh | the Raven |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Sozh *not said here* |  | Dnieper |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dnieper=Result |
| 3 | **come up** | past · perfect | way |  |  |  |  | with Dnieper; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **croak** | to-infinitive | way *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Dnieper |  |  | the earth |  | burrow *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **intend** | gerund | Dnieper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **leap** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dnieper *not said here* |  |  | the cry of the Raven |  | to the surface | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to surface=Destination |
| 8 | **mean** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  | before Dnieper's brother |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **cry** |  | the Raven |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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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