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description: Because thou didst not assist the moujik, therefore shall men honor thee by thanksgiving once only every four years. Who acts: thou, men. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 105

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Because thou didst not assist the moujik, therefore shall men honor thee by thanksgiving once only every four years.

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**Who acts:** thou, men · **What happens:** not assist, honor, thanksgiv · **To what, where:** moujik, thee

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, men), 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:pg22373:58:105
# text = Because thou didst not assist the moujik, therefore shall men honor thee by thanksgiving once only every four years.
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	honor	honor	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	thanksgiving	thanksgiv	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **assist** | past · do-support | thou | the moujik |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **honor** | shall | men | thee |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **thanksgiv** | gerund | men *not said here* |  |  |  | year | once *property* | tree rules |

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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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