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title: They sat down to table together, ate sweetmeats, and drank strong wi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They sat down to table together, ate sweetmeats, and drank strong wine. Who acts: sides. 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 58

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They sat down to table together, ate sweetmeats, and drank strong wine.

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**Who acts:** sides · **What happens:** sit down, eat, drink · **To what, where:** sweetmeats, strong wine

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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 (sides), 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:pg62509:18:58
# text = They sat down to table together, ate sweetmeats, and drank strong wine.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | sides *= side* |  |  |  |  | table *advcl*; down, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | past | sides *= side* *not said here* | sweetmeats |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | past | sides *= side* *not said here* | strong wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |

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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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