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title: A soldier had obtained leave to go home on furlough--to pray to the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A soldier had obtained leave to go home on furlough--to pray to the holy images, and to bow down before his parents. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, 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 3, sentence 111

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A soldier had obtained leave to go home on furlough--to pray to the holy images, and to bow down before his parents.

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**What happens:** obtain, go, pray, bow down · **To what, where:** soldier, furlough

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:53:111
# text = A soldier had obtained leave to go home on furlough--to pray to the holy images, and to bow down before his parents.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	furlough	furlough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bow	bow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past · perfect · passive |  | a soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | furlough |  | home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on furlough=Location |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the holy images | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **bow down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before moujik's parents |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before parent=Location |

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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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