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description: As soon as the robbers had come in they began dividing their booty, and after everything else was shared there remained over and above a golden sabre--each one laid hold of it for himself, no one would give up his claim to it. Who acts: robbers, one, moujik. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Cho
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 114

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As soon as the robbers had come in they began dividing their booty, and after everything else was shared there remained over and above a golden sabre--each one laid hold of it for himself, no one would give up his claim to it.

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**Who acts:** robbers, one, moujik · **What happens:** come in, begin, divide, share, remain over, lay · **To what, where:** booty, everything, claim, golden sabre

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, one, moujik), 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:pg22373:16:114
# text = As soon as the robbers had come in they began dividing their booty, and after everything else was shared there remained over and above a golden sabre--each one laid hold of it for himself, no one would give up his claim to it.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
25	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past · perfect | the robbers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **divide** | gerund | robbers *= robber* *not said here* | robbers's booty |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booty=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain over** | participle |  |  |  | there |  | over *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hold** |  | each one |  |  |  |  | of hold; for moujik | tree rules |
| 8 | **give up** | would | no one | moujik's claim | claim | a golden sabre |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent claim=Theme to it=Recipient |
| 9 | **claim** |  | moujik |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication 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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