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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 142

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On the other hand the memory of the black or evil god is preserved in such imprecations as the Ukraine "May the black god smite thee!"

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**Who acts:** black god · **What happens:** preserve, smite · **To what, where:** memory, other hand, thee

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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 (black god), 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:pg22373:59:142
# text = On the other hand the memory of the black or evil god is preserved in such imprecations as the Ukraine "May the black god smite thee!"
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	imprecations	imprecation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | the memory of the black god |  | the other hand |  | in such imprecations; as the Ukraine and May | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **smite** *in a quote* | infinitive | the black god | thee |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |

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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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