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title: “As it was in the first well, so ill shall in the next world deal by… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “As it was in the first well, so ill shall in the next world deal by the rich peasant; and as it was in the second well, so good shall be the poor widow’s fare.” Who acts: drink, rich peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 172

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“As it was in the first well, so ill shall in the next world deal by the rich peasant; and as it was in the second well, so good shall be the poor widow’s fare.”

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**Who acts:** drink, rich peasant · **What happens:** be, deal · **To what, where:** second well

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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 (drink, rich peasant), 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:pg62509:15:172
# text = “As it was in the first well, so ill shall in the next world deal by the rich peasant; and as it was in the second well, so good shall be the poor widow’s fare.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | drink |  |  |  |  | first, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | drink *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | drink |  |  | the second well |  | the good poor widow's fare *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | shall |  |  |  |  |  | 's the good poor widow | tree rules |
| 5 | **deal** *in a quote* |  | the rich peasant |  |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: by=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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