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description: Having lost all that his father has left him, he hires himself out, first as a laborer, then as a herdsman. Who acts: man, father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 54

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Having lost all that his father has left him, he hires himself out, first as a laborer, then as a herdsman.

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**Who acts:** man, father · **What happens:** lose, leave, hire out · **To what, where:** all, man

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:2861`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:37:54
# text = Having lost all that his father has left him, he hires himself out, first as a laborer, then as a herdsman.
1	Having	have	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hires	hire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	laborer	laborer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund · perfect | man *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | man's father |  | man |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme that=Attribute |
| 3 | **hire out** | present | man | man |  |  |  | as a laborer and a herdsman | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as laborer=Attribute |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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