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LEGENDS, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/) / 143 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 143 \[459\] To ancient pagan traditions, also, into which a Christian element has entered, may be assigned the popular belief that infants which have been cursed by their mothers before their birth, or which are suffocated during their sleep, or which die from any causes unchristened or christened by a drunken priest, become the prey of demons. **Who acts:** mothers, infants · **What happens:** enter, assign, curse, suffocate, die, unchristen · **To what, where:** Christian element, 459, infants, causes, prey 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 (mothers, infants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:59:143 # text = [459] To ancient pagan traditions, also, into which a Christian element has entered, may be assigned the popular belief that infants which have been cursed by their mothers before their birth, or which are suffocated during their sleep, or which die from any causes unchristened or christened by a drunken priest, become the prey of demons. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 459 459 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 To to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 pagan pagan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 traditions tradition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 also also ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 element element NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 entered enter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 assigned assign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 26 infants infant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 before before ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 suffocated suffocate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 42 during during ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 49 from from ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 51 det _ _ 51 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 52 unchristened unchristen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 acl _ _ 53 or or CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 christened christen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 conj _ _ 55 by by ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 drunken drunken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 conj _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 xcomp _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 demons demon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | present · perfect · passive | | a Christian element | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 2 | **assign** | may · passive | | 459 to ancient pagan traditions | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: belief=Theme | | 3 | **curse** | present · perfect · passive | infants's mothers | infants | | | before infants's birth | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **suffocate** | present · passive | | infants | | | during infants's sleep | | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **die** | present | | | | any causes | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cause=Causer | | 6 | **unchristen** | participle | | any causes *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **christen** | participle | | | | | | by a drunken priest | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **become** | infinitive | | the prey of demons | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **sleep** | | infants *= infant* | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/144/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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