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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 33

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Then God sent the holy Andrew, who struck with his mace--and all that village was swallowed up by the earth, and the place thereof became a swamp.

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**Who acts:** God, holy Andrew, earth, place · **What happens:** send, strike, swallow up, become · **To what, where:** holy Andrew, village, swamp

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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 (God, holy Andrew, earth, place), 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:pg22373:58:33
# text = Then God sent the holy Andrew, who struck with his mace--and all that village was swallowed up by the earth, and the place thereof became a swamp.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | God | the holy Andrew |  |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andrew=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | the holy Andrew |  |  |  |  | with God's mace | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mace=Theme |
| 3 | **swallow up** | past · passive | the earth | all village |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | the place | a swamp |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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