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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 149

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The "hasty word" of a father or a mother will condemn even an innocent child to slavery among devils, and when it has once been uttered, it is irrevocable.

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**Who acts:** hasty word, word · **What happens:** condemn, utter, be, word · **To what, where:** innocent child, word, father

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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 (hasty word, word), 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:pg22373:59:149
# text = The "hasty word" of a father or a mother will condemn even an innocent child to slavery among devils, and when it has once been uttered, it is irrevocable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	irrevocable	irrevocable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** | future | the hasty word of a father or a mother | a innocent child |  |  |  | to slavery; among devils | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | word |  |  |  | once *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | word |  |  |  |  | irrevocable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** *in a quote* |  |  | a father or a mother |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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