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description: The moujik explained that as he could not get his money back from a man who was in his debt, he was proceeding against a surety; whereupon the merchant paid the debt, and thereby ransomed the picture, which he hung up in a place of honor, and kept a lamp burning before it. Who acts: moujik, man, mer
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 124

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The moujik explained that as he could not get his money back from a man who was in his debt, he was proceeding against a surety; whereupon the merchant paid the debt, and thereby ransomed the picture, which he hung up in a place of honor, and kept a lamp burning before it.

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**Who acts:** moujik, man, merchant, lamp · **What happens:** explain, not get back, be, proceed, pay, ransom · **To what, where:** money, debt, picture, place, lamp · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik, man, merchant, lamp), 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:pg22373:58:124
# text = The moujik explained that as he could not get his money back from a man who was in his debt, he was proceeding against a surety; whereupon the merchant paid the debt, and thereby ransomed the picture, which he hung up in a place of honor, and kept a lamp burning before it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	ransomed	ransom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	55	acl	_	_
57	before	before	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the moujik |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **get back** | could | Moujik | Moujik's money |  |  |  | from a man | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from man=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | a man |  |  | Moujik's debt |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **proceed** | past · progressive | Moujik |  |  |  |  | against a surety | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pay** | past | the merchant | the debt |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
| 6 | **ransom** | participle | the merchant *not said here* | the picture |  |  |  | thereby *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hang up** | past | merchant | the picture |  | a place of honor |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in place=Destination |
| 8 | **keep** | past | the merchant *not said here* | a lamp |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme |
| 9 | **burn** | gerund | a lamp *not said here* |  |  | money |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Location |

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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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