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title: Then the gates of Paradise opened, and the souls began to go in; and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the gates of Paradise opened, and the souls began to go in; and this guilty soul also went in, and for sheer joy forgot all about the soldier. Who acts: gates, souls, guilty soul. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 130

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Then the gates of Paradise opened, and the souls began to go in; and this guilty soul also went in, and for sheer joy forgot all about the soldier.

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**Who acts:** gates, souls, guilty soul · **What happens:** open, begin, go in, forget

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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 (gates, souls, guilty soul), 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:pg62509:13:130
# text = Then the gates of Paradise opened, and the souls began to go in; and this guilty soul also went in, and for sheer joy forgot all about the soldier.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	sheer	sheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the gates of Paradise |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the souls |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go in** | to-infinitive | the souls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go in** | past | this guilty soul |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **forget** | past | this guilty soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sheer joy; about the soldier; all *property* | tree rules |

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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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