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title: So he instantly ordered two hundred and fifty souls to be counted ou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he instantly ordered two hundred and fifty souls to be counted out and to be taken to the rear gates in order that the soldier might not see him. Who acts: master, soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 124

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So he instantly ordered two hundred and fifty souls to be counted out and to be taken to the rear gates in order that the soldier might not see him.

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**Who acts:** master, soldier · **What happens:** order, count out, take, not see · **To what, where:** hundred souls, order, master

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, 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:pg62509:13:124
# text = So he instantly ordered two hundred and fifty souls to be counted out and to be taken to the rear gates in order that the soldier might not see him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rear	rear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | master | hundred souls |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **count out** | to-infinitive · passive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V» |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | master *not said here* |  |  | order |  | to the rear gates *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: to gate=Result |
| 4 | **not** **see** | might | the soldier | master |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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