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title: And while our Lord was hanging on the cross the sparrows were malici… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And while our Lord was hanging on the cross the sparrows were maliciously exclaiming _Jif! Who acts: Lord, sparrows. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 88

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And while our Lord was hanging on the cross the sparrows were maliciously exclaiming \_Jif!

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**Who acts:** Lord, sparrows · **What happens:** hang, exclaim · **To what, where:** cross, Jif

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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 (Lord, sparrows), 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:pg22373:56:88
# text = And while our Lord was hanging on the cross the sparrows were maliciously exclaiming _Jif!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Jif	Jif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · progressive | our Lord |  |  | the cross |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cross=Location |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the sparrows | Jif |  |  |  | maliciously *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jif=Topic |

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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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