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title: The human victim whom St. George has doomed to be thus destroyed not… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The human victim whom St. George has doomed to be thus destroyed nothing can save. Who acts: George, human victim. 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 clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 47

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The human victim whom St. George has doomed to be thus destroyed nothing can save.

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**Who acts:** George, human victim · **What happens:** doom, destroy, save · **To what, where:** human victim, nothing

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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 (George, human victim), 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:pg22373:58:47
# text = The human victim whom St. George has doomed to be thus destroyed nothing can save.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
5	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doom** | present · perfect | George  St. | the human victim |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive · passive | George  St. *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | can | the human victim |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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