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title: Whatever voices may cry aloud "Strike again!" they must remain conte… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever voices may cry aloud "Strike again!" they must remain contented with a single blow. Who acts: voices. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 129

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Whatever voices may cry aloud "Strike again!" they must remain contented with a single blow.

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**Who acts:** voices · **What happens:** cry, remain, content · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voices), 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:pg22373:54:129
# text = Whatever voices may cry aloud "Strike again!" they must remain contented with a single blow.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	det:predet	_	_
2	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Strike	Strike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | may | whatever voices |  |  |  | again | Strike *vocative*; aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remain** | must | voices *= voice* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **content** | participle | voices *= voice* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a single blow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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