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title: [238] Properly speaking "grief," that which morally _krushit_ or cru… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [238] Properly speaking "grief," that which morally _krushit_ or crushes a man. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 36

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\[238\] Properly speaking "grief," that which morally \_krushit\_ or crushes a man.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** speak, krushit, crush · **To what, where:** grief, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg22373:41:36
# text = [238] Properly speaking "grief," that which morally _krushit_ or crushes a man.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	238	238	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	morally	morally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	krushit	krushit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	crushes	crush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  | grief and krushit |  |  |  | properly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **krushit** |  | that |  |  |  |  | morally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **crush** | present | that *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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