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title: But his father was not good: he was always tortured with greedy thou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But his father was not good: he was always tortured with greedy thoughts, how he should derive greater profit from his country and extract heavier taxes. Who acts: father, King. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 41

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But his father was not good: he was always tortured with greedy thoughts, how he should derive greater profit from his country and extract heavier taxes.

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**Who acts:** father, King · **What happens:** not be, torture, derive, extract · **To what, where:** King, greater profit, country, heavier taxes

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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 (father, King), 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:pg62509:17:41
# text = But his father was not good: he was always tortured with greedy thoughts, how he should derive greater profit from his country and extract heavier taxes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	tortured	torture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	derive	derive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	extract	extract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | King's father |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **torture** | past · passive |  | King |  |  |  | with greedy thoughts; always *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **derive** | should | King | greater profit |  | King's country |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent profit=Result from country=Material |
| 4 | **extract** | infinitive | King *not said here* | heavier taxes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=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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