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title: Thus the soldier was left behind, and could not find any home in eit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the soldier was left behind, and could not find any home in either place, and for long after that he still had to live and go on living in the white world. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 131

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Thus the soldier was left behind, and could not find any home in either place, and for long after that he still had to live and go on living in the white world.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** leave behind, not find, have, live, go · **To what, where:** soldier, home, place, white world

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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 (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:pg62509:13:131
# text = Thus the soldier was left behind, and could not find any home in either place, and for long after that he still had to live and go on living in the white world.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | the soldier |  |  |  | behind, thus *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | could |  | any home |  | place |  | long *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | soldier |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | soldier *not said here* |  |  | the white world |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |

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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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