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title: Once upon a time there dwelt two brethren in one village, and one br… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there dwelt two brethren in one village, and one brother was very, very rich, and the other brother was very, very poor. Who acts: one brother, other brother. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 1

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Once upon a time there dwelt two brethren in one village, and one brother was very, very rich, and the other brother was very, very poor.

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**Who acts:** one brother, other brother · **What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** two brethren, one village

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one brother, other brother), 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:pg29672:3:1
# text = Once upon a time there dwelt two brethren in one village, and one brother was very, very rich, and the other brother was very, very poor.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  | two brethren |  | one village; there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brethren=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | one brother |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the other brother |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |

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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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