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title: According to Mr. Babington, "Sanjivi is defined by the Tamuls to be… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Mr. Babington, "Sanjivi is defined by the Tamuls to be a medicine which restores to life by dissipating a mortal swoon.... Who acts: Tamuls, medicine. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 43

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According to Mr. Babington, "Sanjivi is defined by the Tamuls to be a medicine which restores to life by dissipating a mortal swoon....

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**Who acts:** Tamuls, medicine · **What happens:** accord, define, be, restore, dissipate · **To what, where:** Sanjivi, medicine, life, mortal swoon

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Tamuls, medicine), 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:pg22373:42:43
# text = According to Mr. Babington, "Sanjivi is defined by the Tamuls to be a medicine which restores to life by dissipating a mortal swoon....
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Babington	Babington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sanjivi	Sanjivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Tamuls	Tamul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	restores	restore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	dissipating	dissipate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	swoon	swoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	....	....	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **define** *in a quote* | present · passive | the Tamuls | Sanjivi |  |  |  | accord Babington  Mr. | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tamuls *not said here* | a medicine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **restore** *in a quote* | present | a medicine |  | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient |
| 5 | **dissipate** *in a quote* | gerund | a medicine *not said here* | a mortal swoon |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent swoon=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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