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title: So he set to work even more obstinately: at night he would not sleep… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he set to work even more obstinately: at night he would not sleep and by day he would not eat. Who acts: money. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 4

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So he set to work even more obstinately: at night he would not sleep and by day he would not eat.

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**Who acts:** money · **What happens:** set, work, not sleep, not eat

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money), 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:pg62509:17:4
# text = So he set to work even more obstinately: at night he would not sleep and by day he would not eat.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	obstinately	obstinately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	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 | **set** | past | money |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | obstinately *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **sleep** | would | money |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | would | money |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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