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title: The rich peasant would not let them in, telling them: “Over there th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The rich peasant would not let them in, telling them: “Over there there lives a widow who receives beggars; go to her.” Who acts: rich peasant, Christ, widow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 104

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The rich peasant would not let them in, telling them: “Over there there lives a widow who receives beggars; go to her.”

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**Who acts:** rich peasant, Christ, widow · **What happens:** not let in, tell, live, receive, not go · **To what, where:** Christ, widow, beggars, peasant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich peasant, Christ, widow), 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:pg62509:15:104
# text = The rich peasant would not let them in, telling them: “Over there there lives a widow who receives beggars; go to her.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let in** | would | the rich peasant | Christ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Christ *not said here* |  | Christ |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the rich peasant *not said here* | a widow |  | there; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location |
| 4 | **receive** *in a quote* | present | a widow | beggars |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the rich peasant *not said here* |  | peasant |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=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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