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title: And it was only at this moment that the peasant boy understood that… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was only at this moment that the peasant boy understood that he was speaking to Jesus Christ Himself. Who acts: hedge, peasant boy, boy. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 155

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And it was only at this moment that the peasant boy understood that he was speaking to Jesus Christ Himself.

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**Who acts:** hedge, peasant boy, boy · **What happens:** be, understand, speak · **To what, where:** boy, Jesus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hedge, peasant boy, boy), 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:pg62509:19:155
# text = And it was only at this moment that the peasant boy understood that he was speaking to Jesus Christ Himself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hedge |  |  |  | at this moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | past | the peasant boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | boy | boy | Jesus |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to jesus=Co-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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