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title: “Why, we only took a short drink,” the Apostles answered, “and we we… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, we only took a short drink,” the Apostles answered, “and we were only away three little minutes.” Who acts: we, Apostles. 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 170

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“Why, we only took a short drink,” the Apostles answered, “and we were only away three little minutes.”

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**Who acts:** we, Apostles · **What happens:** take, answer, be · **To what, where:** short drink · **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 (we, Apostles), 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:pg62509:15:170
# text = “Why, we only took a short drink,” the Apostles answered, “and we were only away three little minutes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | past | we | a short drink |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Apostles |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  | minute | away *property* | tree rules |

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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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