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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 26

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From these vocal rivers we will now turn to that elementary force by which in winter they are often rendered mute.

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**Who acts:** we, elementary force · **What happens:** turn, render · **To what, where:** vocal rivers, people

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, elementary force), 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:pg22373:39:26
# text = From these vocal rivers we will now turn to that elementary force by which in winter they are often rendered mute.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	vocal	vocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	elementary	elementary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | we |  |  | this vocal rivers | now | to that elementary force *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from river=Initial\_State to force=Result |
| 2 | **render** | present · passive | that elementary force | people |  |  | winter | often *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient mute=Theme |

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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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