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title: The white clouds of summer are named by them his heavenly sheep, and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The white clouds of summer are named by them his heavenly sheep, and they say that he compels the spirits of dead Gypsies to form pellets of snow--by men styled hail--with which he scourges in summer the fields of sinners. Who acts: nostrils, clouds, Ilya. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 64

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The white clouds of summer are named by them his heavenly sheep, and they say that he compels the spirits of dead Gypsies to form pellets of snow--by men styled hail--with which he scourges in summer the fields of sinners.

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**Who acts:** nostrils, clouds, Ilya · **What happens:** name, say, compel, form, style, scourge · **To what, where:** white clouds, spirits, pellets, summer · **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 (nostrils, clouds, 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:pg22373:57:64
# text = The white clouds of summer are named by them his heavenly sheep, and they say that he compels the spirits of dead Gypsies to form pellets of snow--by men styled hail--with which he scourges in summer the fields of sinners.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	compels	compel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Gypsies	gypsy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
33	styled	style	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	scourges	scourge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | present · passive | nostrils *= nostril* | the white clouds of summer |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme sheep=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **compel** | present | Ilya | the spirits of dead Gypsies |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 4 | **form** | to-infinitive | Ilya *not said here* | pellets of snow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **style** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **scourge** | present | Ilya |  |  |  | summer | with styled hail | tree rules |
| 7 | **cloud** |  |  | summer |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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