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title: Satan replies, "If this be thy _zakon_, go hence therewith! to sever… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Satan replies, "If this be thy _zakon_, go hence therewith! to sever a _zakon_ is impossible." Who acts: Satan, this. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 127

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Satan replies, "If this be thy \_zakon\_, go hence therewith! to sever a \_zakon\_ is impossible."

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**Who acts:** Satan, this · **What happens:** reply, be, go, sever · **To what, where:** zakon · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satan, this), 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:pg22373:62:127
# text = Satan replies, "If this be thy _zakon_, go hence therewith! to sever a _zakon_ is impossible."
1	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	zakon	zakon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sever	sever	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	zakon	zakon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: express* | present | Satan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | this | thy zakon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sever** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a zakon |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zakon=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | 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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