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title: The soldier jumped up, took the cutlass and went to recall him and t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldier jumped up, took the cutlass and went to recall him and to have a talk: “Why do you keep guard in this way? Who acts: soldier, you. 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 58

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The soldier jumped up, took the cutlass and went to recall him and to have a talk: “Why do you keep guard in this way?

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**Who acts:** soldier, you · **What happens:** jump up, take, go, recall, have, keep · **To what, where:** cutlass, TSAR, talk, guard, way

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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 (soldier, you), 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:pg62509:19:58
# text = The soldier jumped up, took the cutlass and went to recall him and to have a talk: “Why do you keep guard in this way?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	recall	recall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
25	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | the soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the soldier *not said here* | the cutlass |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutlass=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **recall** | to-infinitive | the soldier *not said here* | TSAR |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | the soldier *not said here* | a talk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | guard |  | this way |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Theme in way=Location |

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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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