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title: So they talked the matter over till he let himself be persuaded, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they talked the matter over till he let himself be persuaded, and then they began to make great preparations for the bridal banquet. Who acts: soldiers, man. 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 24

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So they talked the matter over till he let himself be persuaded, and then they began to make great preparations for the bridal banquet.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, man · **What happens:** talk over, let, persuade, begin, make · **To what, where:** matter, man, great preparations

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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 (soldiers, man), 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:pg29672:17:24
# text = So they talked the matter over till he let himself be persuaded, and then they began to make great preparations for the bridal banquet.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk over** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | the matter |  |  |  | over *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent matter=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | past | man | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **persuade** | infinitive · passive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **begin** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | great preparations |  |  |  | for the bridal banquet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for banquet=Asset |

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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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