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title: So he put all the fragments back into the water, rinsed and scoured… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he put all the fragments back into the water, rinsed and scoured them through, fitting the pieces together, and breathed on them. Who acts: pope. 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 64

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So he put all the fragments back into the water, rinsed and scoured them through, fitting the pieces together, and breathed on them.

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**Who acts:** pope · **What happens:** put, rinse, scour, fit, breathe · **To what, where:** fragments, water, lungs, pieces

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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 (pope), 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:pg62509:12:64
# text = So he put all the fragments back into the water, rinsed and scoured them through, fitting the pieces together, and breathed on them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	rinsed	rinse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	through	through	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | pope | all fragments |  | the water |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fragment=Goal |
| 2 | **rinse** | participle |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scour** | past | pope *not said here* | lungs *= lung* |  |  |  | through *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 4 | **fit** | gerund | pope *not said here* | the pieces |  |  |  | together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 5 | **breathe** | participle | pope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on lungs *= lung* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination |

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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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