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title: “Then I went to sleep on the corn-kiln, and I heard a cry: ‘Sister! — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then I went to sleep on the corn-kiln, and I heard a cry: ‘Sister! Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 132

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“Then I went to sleep on the corn-kiln, and I heard a cry: ‘Sister!

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**Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** go, sleep, hear · **To what, where:** corn kiln, cry

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:18:132
# text = “Then I went to sleep on the corn-kiln, and I heard a cry: ‘Sister!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the peasant *= peasant* |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the peasant *= peasant* *not said here* |  |  | the corn kiln |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | the peasant *= peasant* | a cry |  |  |  | Sister *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |

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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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