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title: [17] Posad, or posag, a bench covered with white cloth on which the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [17] Posad, or posag, a bench covered with white cloth on which the bride and bridegroom sat down together. Who acts: bride. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 15

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\[17\] Posad, or posag, a bench covered with white cloth on which the bride and bridegroom sat down together.

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**Who acts:** bride · **What happens:** cover, sit down · **To what, where:** bench, white cloth

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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:pg29672:17:15
# text = [17] Posad, or posag, a bench covered with white cloth on which the bride and bridegroom sat down together.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Posad	Posad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	posag	posag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | a bench *not said here* |  |  |  | with white cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | the bride and bridegroom |  |  | white cloth |  | down, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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