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title: Many a sheaf did the Moujik gather, many a heap of sheaves did he se… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a sheaf did the Moujik gather, many a heap of sheaves did he set up; and now he was beginning to carry the crop, and to gather it together into ricks. Who acts: Moujik, goodness. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 123

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Many a sheaf did the Moujik gather, many a heap of sheaves did he set up; and now he was beginning to carry the crop, and to gather it together into ricks.

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**Who acts:** Moujik, goodness · **What happens:** gather, set up, begin, carry · **To what, where:** Many sheaf, many heap, crop

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Moujik, goodness), 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:pg22373:4826`): 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:pg22373:57:123
# text = Many a sheaf did the Moujik gather, many a heap of sheaves did he set up; and now he was beginning to carry the crop, and to gather it together into ricks.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ricks	rick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · do-support | the Moujik | a Many sheaf |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme |
| 2 | **set up** | past · do-support | goodness | a many heap of sheaves |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heap=Result |
| 3 | **begin** | past · progressive | goodness |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | goodness *not said here* | the crop |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |
| 5 | **gather** | to-infinitive | goodness *not said here* | crop |  |  |  | into ricks; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient into rick=Co-Patient |

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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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