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description: The Servians say that at the division of the world Ilya received the thunder and lightning as his share, and that the crash and blaze of the storm are signs of his contest with the devil. Who acts: Servians, Ilya, crash, storm. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fol
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 61

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The Servians say that at the division of the world Ilya received the thunder and lightning as his share, and that the crash and blaze of the storm are signs of his contest with the devil.

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**Who acts:** Servians, Ilya, crash, storm · **What happens:** say, receive, be, share, blaze, contest · **To what, where:** thunder, division, signs · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Servians, Ilya, crash, storm), 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:pg22373:57:61
# text = The Servians say that at the division of the world Ilya received the thunder and lightning as his share, and that the crash and blaze of the storm are signs of his contest with the devil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Servians	Servian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Servians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **receive** | past | Ilya | the thunder and lightning |  | the division of the world |  | as Ilya's share | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme at division=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the crash and blaze of the storm | signs |  |  |  | of Ilya's contest with the devil | tree rules |
| 4 | **share** |  | Ilya |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **blaze** |  | the storm |  |  |  |  |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **contest** |  | Ilya |  |  |  |  | with the devil | nom contest «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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