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description: The Russian took the money, bade the Tartar farewell, and went back to trade in divers places. Who acts: Russian. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, 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 I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 5

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The Russian took the money, bade the Tartar farewell, and went back to trade in divers places.

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**Who acts:** Russian · **What happens:** take, go back, trade · **To what, where:** money, divers places

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (Russian), 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:pg22373:14:5
# text = The Russian took the money, bade the Tartar farewell, and went back to trade in divers places.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	trade	trade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Russian | the money and bade |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument money=Theme farewell=Destination |
| 2 | **go back** | past | the Russian *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trade** | to-infinitive | the Russian *not said here* |  |  | divers places |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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