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title: The master and mistress lived on and experienced good in their life,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The master and mistress lived on and experienced good in their life, and they are still alive, if they are not dead. Who acts: master, servants. 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 137

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The master and mistress lived on and experienced good in their life, and they are still alive, if they are not dead.

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**Who acts:** master, servants · **What happens:** live on, experience, be, not be · **To what, where:** life

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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 (master, servants), 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:pg62509:16:137
# text = The master and mistress lived on and experienced good in their life, and they are still alive, if they are not dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live on** | past | the master and mistress |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **experience** | participle | the master and mistress *not said here* |  |  | servants's life |  | good *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | servants *= servant* |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | dead *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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