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description: In Little Russia that animal is called "St. George's Dog," and the carcases of sheep which wolves have killed are not used for human food, it being held that they have been assigned by divine command to the beasts of the field. Who acts: divine command. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice C
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 46

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In Little Russia that animal is called "St. George's Dog," and the carcases of sheep which wolves have killed are not used for human food, it being held that they have been assigned by divine command to the beasts of the field.

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**Who acts:** divine command · **What happens:** call, kill, not use, hold, assign · **To what, where:** animal, Little Russia, carcases, beasts · **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 (divine command), 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:pg22373:58:46
# text = In Little Russia that animal is called "St. George's Dog," and the carcases of sheep which wolves have killed are not used for human food, it being held that they have been assigned by divine command to the beasts of the field.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	carcases	carcase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | animal |  | Little Russia |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **kill** | present · perfect |  | the carcases of sheep and which wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **use** | present · passive |  | the carcases of sheep and which wolves |  |  |  | for human food | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for food=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund · passive |  | animal |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **assign** | present · perfect · passive | divine command | carcases *= carcase* |  |  |  | to the beasts of the field *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to beast=Goal |

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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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