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title: On the third day the crow flew back and brought with him two phials:… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third day the crow flew back and brought with him two phials: in one was the water of Life and in the other the water of Death. Who acts: crow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 68

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On the third day the crow flew back and brought with him two phials: in one was the water of Life and in the other the water of Death.

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**Who acts:** crow · **What happens:** fly back, bring, be · **To what, where:** two phials, one water

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:11:68
# text = On the third day the crow flew back and brought with him two phials: in one was the water of Life and in the other the water of Death.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	phials	phial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly back** | past | the crow |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the crow *not said here* | two phials |  |  |  | with Vóron | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent phial=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the one water and the other water of Death |  | of Life; the other water of Death *conj* | 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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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