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title: So there the soldier sat like a lord in the inn, at his ease, drinki… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So there the soldier sat like a lord in the inn, at his ease, drinking wine and feasting on roast goose. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 138

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So there the soldier sat like a lord in the inn, at his ease, drinking wine and feasting on roast goose.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** sit, drink · **To what, where:** inn, wine

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg62509:12:138
# text = So there the soldier sat like a lord in the inn, at his ease, drinking wine and feasting on roast goose.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the soldier |  |  | the inn; there |  | like a lord; Lord's ease *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in inn=Location |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund | the soldier *not said here* | wine and feasting |  |  |  | on roast goose | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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 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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