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description: Its song, according to Bohemian legends, heals the sick and restores sight to the blind. Who acts: song, notice. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 139

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Its song, according to Bohemian legends, heals the sick and restores sight to the blind.

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**Who acts:** song, notice · **What happens:** accord, heal, restore, sing · **To what, where:** sick, sight, blind

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (song, notice), 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:pg22373:48:139
# text = Its song, according to Bohemian legends, heals the sick and restores sight to the blind.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	Bohemian	bohemian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	restores	restore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | **heal** | present | notice's song and Bohemian legends | the sick |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sick=Patient |
| 3 | **restore** | present | notice's song and Bohemian legends *not said here* | sight | the blind |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to blind=Recipient |
| 4 | **sing** |  | notice |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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