--- title: All of a sudden they run up against a Diachok,[64] and says he:-- — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: All of a sudden they run up against a Diachok,[64] and says he:-- Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/198/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/) / 198 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 198 All of a sudden they run up against a Diachok,\[64\] and says he:-- **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** run up, say · **To what, where:** mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:16:198 # text = All of a sudden they run up against a Diachok,[64] and says he:-- 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Diachok Diachok PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 64 64 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT NFP _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run up** | present | brothers *= brother* | | | | | of a sudden; against a Diachok | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of sudden=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | mind | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/197/) - next →: [sentence 199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/199/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/)