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title: After witnessing many strange sights, the bridegroom is told to sit… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: After witnessing many strange sights, the bridegroom is told to sit down and wait till his guide returns. Who acts: bridegroom, guide. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 186

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After witnessing many strange sights, the bridegroom is told to sit down and wait till his guide returns.

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**Who acts:** bridegroom, guide · **What happens:** witness, tell, sit down, wait, return · **To what, where:** many strange sights, bridegroom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, guide), 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:pg22373:52:186
# text = After witnessing many strange sights, the bridegroom is told to sit down and wait till his guide returns.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	witnessing	witness	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sights	sight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **witness** | gerund |  | many strange sights |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bridegroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | infinitive | the bridegroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | present | bridegroom's guide |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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