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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 60

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And so, at the present day, a \_zagovor\_ or spell against the Siberian cattle-plague entreats the "Holy Prophet of God Ilya," to send "thirty angels in golden array, with bows and with arrows" to destroy it.

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**Who acts:** zagovor \_ · **What happens:** entreat, send, destroy · **To what, where:** Holy Prophet, thirty angels, golden array, Prophet

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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 (zagovor \_), 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:pg22373:57:60
# text = And so, at the present day, a _zagovor_ or spell against the Siberian cattle-plague entreats the "Holy Prophet of God Ilya," to send "thirty angels in golden array, with bows and with arrows" to destroy it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	zagovor	zagovor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	Siberian	siberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
21	entreats	entreat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	25	compound	_	_
25	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | present | a zagovor \_ against the Siberian cattle plague or spell |  | the Holy Prophet of God |  | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Recipient |
| 2 | **send** | to-infinitive | a zagovor \_ against the Siberian cattle plague or spell *not said here* | thirty angels and bows and arrows |  | golden array |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in array=Destination |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | a zagovor \_ against the Siberian cattle plague or spell *not said here* | Prophet |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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