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title: And the soldier, ill as he was, jumped up from his bed, buckled the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the soldier, ill as he was, jumped up from his bed, buckled the nosebag together firmly, very tightly, threw it on his shoulder, and went into the Bryánski Woods, the slumbrous forest. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 81

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And the soldier, ill as he was, jumped up from his bed, buckled the nosebag together firmly, very tightly, threw it on his shoulder, and went into the Bryánski Woods, the slumbrous forest.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** be, jump up, buckle, throw, go · **To what, where:** nosebag, bed, shoulder, Bryánski Woods

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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:pg62509:13:81
# text = And the soldier, ill as he was, jumped up from his bed, buckled the nosebag together firmly, very tightly, threw it on his shoulder, and went into the Bryánski Woods, the slumbrous forest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nosebag	nosebag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
20	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Bryánski	Bryánski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	slumbrous	slumbrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jump up** | past | the soldier | the nosebag |  | soldier's bed |  | firmly, tightly, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nosebag=Theme from bed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **buckle** | participle | the soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **throw** | past |  | bed |  | soldier's shoulder |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 5 | **go** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  | the Bryánski Woods |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into woods=Initial\_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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