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title: Then about midnight, I don’t know where from, hordes of devils, seen… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then about midnight, I don’t know where from, hordes of devils, seen and unseen, scurried up, and made such a turmoil and row, and set up a dance with wild music. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 159

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Then about midnight, I don’t know where from, hordes of devils, seen and unseen, scurried up, and made such a turmoil and row, and set up a dance with wild music.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not know, see, scurry up, make, set up · **To what, where:** devils, hordes, turmoil, dance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:pg62509:12:159
# text = Then about midnight, I don’t know where from, hordes of devils, seen and unseen, scurried up, and made such a turmoil and row, and set up a dance with wild music.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hordes	horde	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	scurried	scurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  | then; midnight |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  | devils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **scurry up** | participle |  |  |  | hordes of devils |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horde=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | such turmoil and row |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset turmoil=Product |
| 5 | **set up** | participle |  | a dance |  |  |  | with wild music | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dance=Patient with music=Instrument |

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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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