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title: So on Easter Day he went into the church, and he took some fine eggs… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So on Easter Day he went into the church, and he took some fine eggs with him with which to greet his poor brothers, although his mother was very angry with him for so doing—for she was an evil-minded woman and merciless to the poor. Who acts: man, mother, end. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 130

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So on Easter Day he went into the church, and he took some fine eggs with him with which to greet his poor brothers, although his mother was very angry with him for so doing—for she was an evil-minded woman and merciless to the poor.

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**Who acts:** man, mother, end · **What happens:** go, take, greet, be, do · **To what, where:** church, fine eggs, poor brothers, minded woman

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mother, end), 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:pg62509:19:130
# text = So on Easter Day he went into the church, and he took some fine eggs with him with which to greet his poor brothers, although his mother was very angry with him for so doing—for she was an evil-minded woman and merciless to the poor.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	merciless	merciless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  | the church | on Easter Day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | man | some fine eggs |  |  |  | with brother; which *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument egg=Theme which=Destination |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  | man's poor brothers |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | man's mother |  |  |  |  | with man; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | end | a minded woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the poor | 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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