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title: The smith swore and made oath that he would never raise the hammer o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The smith swore and made oath that he would never raise the hammer on the devil and would give him every honour. Who acts: smith, husband. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 132

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The smith swore and made oath that he would never raise the hammer on the devil and would give him every honour.

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**Who acts:** smith, husband · **What happens:** swear, make, not raise, give · **To what, where:** oath, hammer, honour, husband

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, husband), 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:pg62509:16:132
# text = The smith swore and made oath that he would never raise the hammer on the devil and would give him every honour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | the smith |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | the smith *not said here* | oath |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oath=Product |
| 3 | **not** **raise** | would | husband | the hammer |  |  |  | on the devil | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme on devil=Destination |
| 4 | **give** | would | husband *not said here* | every honour | husband |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient honour=Theme |

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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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