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description: Och." i. 361) states that "The Thunder" (_i.e._, the Thunder-God or Perun) "began to divide gifts. Who acts: Och, Thunder. 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 72

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Och." i. 361) states that "The Thunder" (\_i.e.\_, the Thunder-God or Perun) "began to divide gifts.

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**Who acts:** Och, Thunder · **What happens:** state, begin, divide · **To what, where:** gifts · **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 (Och, Thunder), 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:pg22373:62:72
# text = Och." i. 361) states that "The Thunder" (_i.e._, the Thunder-God or Perun) "began to divide gifts.
1	Och	och	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	361	361	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	states	state	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Perun	Perun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Och  361 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **divide** | to-infinitive | the Thunder *not said here* | gifts |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |

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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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