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title: On his day the peasants everywhere expect thunder and rain, and in s… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 53

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On his day the peasants everywhere expect thunder and rain, and in some places they set out rye and oats on their gates, and ask their clergy to laud the name of Ilya, that he may bless their cornfields with plenteousness.

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**Who acts:** peasants, Ilya · **What happens:** expect, set out, ask, laud, bless, name · **To what, where:** thunder, rye, places, clergy, name, cornfields

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, Ilya), 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:pg22373:57:53
# text = On his day the peasants everywhere expect thunder and rain, and in some places they set out rye and oats on their gates, and ask their clergy to laud the name of Ilya, that he may bless their cornfields with plenteousness.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	laud	laud	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	cornfields	cornfield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	plenteousness	plenteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | present | the peasants | thunder and rain |  |  | day | everywhere *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past | peasants *= peasant* | rye and oats |  | some places |  | on peasants's gates | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  | peasants's clergy |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent clergy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **laud** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the name of Ilya |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 5 | **bless** | may | Ilya | peasants's cornfields |  |  |  | with plenteousness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornfield=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Ilya |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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