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title: One-eyed Likho, a story of the Polyphemus Cycle--Woe, the Poor Man's… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, sentence 3

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One-eyed Likho, a story of the Polyphemus Cycle--Woe, the Poor Man's Companion--Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday personified as Female Spirits--The Leshy or Wood-Demon--Legends about Rivers--Frost as a Wooer of Maidens--The Whirlwind personified as a species of Snake or Demon--Morfei and Oh, two supernatural beings 186

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**Who acts:** Sunday, Whirlwind · **What happens:** personify · **To what, where:** eyed Likho

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunday, Whirlwind), 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:pg22373:6:3
# text = One-eyed Likho, a story of the Polyphemus Cycle--Woe, the Poor Man's Companion--Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday personified as Female Spirits--The Leshy or Wood-Demon--Legends about Rivers--Frost as a Wooer of Maidens--The Whirlwind personified as a species of Snake or Demon--Morfei and Oh, two supernatural beings 186
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Likho	Likho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cycle	Cycle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Companion	Companion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	personified	personify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Rivers	Rivers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Whirlwind	Whirlwind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	personified	personify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	species	species	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	Morfei	Morfei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
63	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	67	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
65	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	67	nummod	_	_
66	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
68	186	186	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **personify** | past | Sunday | eyed Likho and the Poor Man's Companion and Friday and Morfei and two supernatural beings *not said here* |  |  |  | as Female Spirits  the Leshy or Wood and Demon | tree rules |
| 2 | **personify** | past | the Whirlwind |  |  |  |  | as a species of Snake or Demon | 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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