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description: And he collected them all together—so many you couldn’t count them all! Who acts: nosebag, many. 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 4

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And he collected them all together—so many you couldn’t count them all!

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**Who acts:** nosebag, many · **What happens:** collect, not count · **To what, where:** devils

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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 (nosebag, many), 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:pg62509:13:4
# text = And he collected them all together—so many you couldn’t count them all!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past | nosebag | devils *= devil* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **count** | could | many | devils *= devil* |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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