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title: Page 214--alloting amended to allotting--"... when God was allotting… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 214--alloting amended to allotting--"... when God was allotting their shares ..." Who acts: God, women. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, 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 8, sentence 173

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Page 214--alloting amended to allotting--"... when God was allotting their shares ..."

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**Who acts:** God, women · **What happens:** amend, allot, share · **To what, where:** Page alloting, shares

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, women), 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:pg22373:63:173
# text = Page 214--alloting amended to allotting--"... when God was allotting their shares ..."
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	214	214	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	alloting	alloting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	allotting	allot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	allotting	allot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amend** | participle |  | Page alloting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **allot** *in a quote* | past · progressive | God | women's shares |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent share=Theme |
| 4 | **share** *in a quote* |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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