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title: “Now, sisters, our watchman has gone to sleep: it is time we set out… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, sisters, our watchman has gone to sleep: it is time we set out on our promenade: it is time.” Who acts: watchman, we, our. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 1

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“Now, sisters, our watchman has gone to sleep: it is time we set out on our promenade: it is time.”

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**Who acts:** watchman, we, our · **What happens:** go, sleep, be, set out, promenade · **To what, where:** sisters, time, promenade

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, we, our), 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:pg62509:14:1
# text = “Now, sisters, our watchman has gone to sleep: it is time we set out on our promenade: it is time.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	promenade	promenade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | our watchman | sisters |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | our watchman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | watchman | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set out** *in a quote* | past | we | time *not said here* |  | our promenade |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | watchman | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **promenade** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom promenade «event intransitive»: poss=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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