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description: Thus, among the peasants of White Russia some vague memory still exists of a white or bright being, now called Byelun,[458] who leads belated travellers out of forests, and bestows gold on men who do him good service. " Who acts: vague memory, Byelun, men. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 140

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Thus, among the peasants of White Russia some vague memory still exists of a white or bright being, now called Byelun,\[458\] who leads belated travellers out of forests, and bestows gold on men who do him good service. "

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**Who acts:** vague memory, Byelun, men · **What happens:** exist, call, lead, belat, bestow, do · **To what, where:** belated travellers, forests, gold, memory · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vague memory, Byelun, 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:pg22373:59:140
# text = Thus, among the peasants of White Russia some vague memory still exists of a white or bright being, now called Byelun,[458] who leads belated travellers out of forests, and bestows gold on men who do him good service. "
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
23	Byelun	Byelun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	458	458	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl:relcl	_	_
30	belated	belat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	bestows	bestow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
38	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | some vague memory |  |  |  | still | thus *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | some vague memory *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **lead** | present | Byelun | belated travellers |  | forests |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme out forest=Destination |
| 4 | **belat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bestow** | present | Byelun *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | on men | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | present | men | memory |  |  |  |  | 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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