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description: After the death of a witch her body is liable, says popular tradition, to be tenanted by a devil (as may be seen from No. iii.), and to corpses thus possessed have been attributed by the storytellers the terrible deeds which Indian tales relate of Rakshasas and other evil spirits. Who acts: body, de
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 84

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After the death of a witch her body is liable, says popular tradition, to be tenanted by a devil (as may be seen from No. iii.), and to corpses thus possessed have been attributed by the storytellers the terrible deeds which Indian tales relate of Rakshasas and other evil spirits.

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**Who acts:** body, devil, storytellers, Indian tales, witch · **What happens:** be, say, tenant, see, possess, attribute · **To what, where:** witch, popular tradition, No., corpses, terrible deeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (body, devil, storytellers, Indian tales), 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:pg22373:48:84
# text = After the death of a witch her body is liable, says popular tradition, to be tenanted by a devil (as may be seen from No. iii.), and to corpses thus possessed have been attributed by the storytellers the terrible deeds which Indian tales relate of Rakshasas and other evil spirits.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	liable	liable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	tenanted	tenant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	storytellers	storyteller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	obj	_	_
48	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Rakshasas	Rakshasas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | witch's body | a witch *not said here* |  |  |  | liable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | popular tradition |  |  | after the death of a witch |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tradition=Topic |
| 3 | **tenant** | to-infinitive · passive | a devil |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | may · passive | a devil *not said here* |  |  | No. |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **possess** | participle |  | corpses *not said here* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **attribute** | present · perfect · passive | the storytellers | corpses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **relate** | present | Indian tales | the terrible deeds |  |  |  | of Rakshasas and other evil spirits | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 8 | **die** |  | a witch |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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