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title: So the soldier went and stayed with the Tsar, and had a sufficiency… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the soldier went and stayed with the Tsar, and had a sufficiency of all things, simply rolled in riches, and he thought it was time he should marry. Who acts: soldier, sufficiency, things. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 41

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So the soldier went and stayed with the Tsar, and had a sufficiency of all things, simply rolled in riches, and he thought it was time he should marry.

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**Who acts:** soldier, sufficiency, things · **What happens:** go, stay, have, roll, think, be · **To what, where:** sufficiency, things, riches, time · **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 (soldier, sufficiency, things), 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:pg62509:13:41
# text = So the soldier went and stayed with the Tsar, and had a sufficiency of all things, simply rolled in riches, and he thought it was time he should marry.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sufficiency	sufficiency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Tsar | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with tsar=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | the soldier *not said here* | a sufficiency of all things |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sufficiency=Patient |
| 4 | **roll** | participle |  | all things *not said here* |  | riches |  | simply *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rich=Trajectory |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | sufficiency | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **marry** | should | soldier | time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient |
| 8 | **suffice** |  | all things |  |  |  |  |  | nom sufficiency «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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