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title: The rustic warlocks and witches of whom we are accustomed to hear ha… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rustic warlocks and witches of whom we are accustomed to hear have little, if any, of that thirst for blood which so unfavorably characterizes their Slavonic counterparts. Who acts: rustic warlocks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchc
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 94

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The rustic warlocks and witches of whom we are accustomed to hear have little, if any, of that thirst for blood which so unfavorably characterizes their Slavonic counterparts.

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**Who acts:** rustic warlocks · **What happens:** accustom, have, characterize · **To what, where:** we, little, thirst

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (rustic warlocks), 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:pg22373:46:94
# text = The rustic warlocks and witches of whom we are accustomed to hear have little, if any, of that thirst for blood which so unfavorably characterizes their Slavonic counterparts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warlocks	warlock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	TO	_	12	case	_	_
12	hear	hear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	unfavorably	unfavorably	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	characterizes	characterize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	counterparts	counterpart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  | of witches; to hear | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the rustic warlocks and witches | little |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 3 | **characterize** | present |  | that thirst for blood |  |  |  | unfavorably *property* | tree rules |

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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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