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description: The Schismatics called _Dukhobortsui_, or Spirit-Wrestlers, for instance, hold that man was composed of earthly materials, but that God breathed into his body the breath of life. " Who acts: Schismatics, God. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 32

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The Schismatics called \_Dukhobortsui\_, or Spirit-Wrestlers, for instance, hold that man was composed of earthly materials, but that God breathed into his body the breath of life. "

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**Who acts:** Schismatics, God · **What happens:** call, hold, compose, breathe · **To what, where:** Dukhobortsui, man, breath, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Schismatics, God), 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:pg22373:56:32
# text = The Schismatics called _Dukhobortsui_, or Spirit-Wrestlers, for instance, hold that man was composed of earthly materials, but that God breathed into his body the breath of life. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Schismatics	Schismatic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Dukhobortsui	Dukhobortsui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Wrestlers	wrestler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the Schismatics |  | Dukhobortsui or Spirit Wrestlers |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dukhobortsui=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **compose** | past · passive |  | that man |  |  |  | of earthly materials | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **breathe** | past | God | the breath of life |  | man's body |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

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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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