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description: The Apostles saw him, and said to the Lord: “Some soldier or other has come up here with two hundred and fifty souls from hell!” Who acts: Apostles, soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 126

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The Apostles saw him, and said to the Lord: “Some soldier or other has come up here with two hundred and fifty souls from hell!”

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**Who acts:** Apostles, soldier · **What happens:** see, say, come up · **To what, where:** soldier, Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Apostles, 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:pg62509:13:126
# text = The Apostles saw him, and said to the Lord: “Some soldier or other has come up here with two hundred and fifty souls from hell!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Apostles | soldier |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Apostles *not said here* |  | the Lord |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come up** *in a quote* | present · perfect | some soldier |  |  | here |  | with hundred souls from hell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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