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description: The old man then said to the pope: “Let us bury all the money in the earth and again go a-healing.” Who acts: old man, us. 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 55

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The old man then said to the pope: “Let us bury all the money in the earth and again go a-healing.”

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**Who acts:** old man, us · **What happens:** say, let, bury, go · **To what, where:** pope, us, money, earth, healing · **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 (old man, us), 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:pg62509:12:55
# text = The old man then said to the pope: “Let us bury all the money in the earth and again go a-healing.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  | the pope |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pope=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | all money |  | the earth |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in earth=Destination |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a healing |  |  | again |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location healing=Theme |

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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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