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title: One day the soldier was standing on sentry-go at the ammunition-wago… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the soldier was standing on sentry-go at the ammunition-wagons just outside the general’s quarters, and the general was giving a great dinner, and a multitude of officers and gentlemen were going to him. Who acts: soldier, sentry, general, multitude. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 8

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One day the soldier was standing on sentry-go at the ammunition-wagons just outside the general’s quarters, and the general was giving a great dinner, and a multitude of officers and gentlemen were going to him.

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**Who acts:** soldier, sentry, general, multitude · **What happens:** stand, go, give · **To what, where:** ammunition wagons, great dinner, general

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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, sentry, general, multitude), 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:pg62509:19:8
# text = One day the soldier was standing on sentry-go at the ammunition-wagons just outside the general’s quarters, and the general was giving a great dinner, and a multitude of officers and gentlemen were going to him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ammunition	ammunition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | the soldier |  |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | sentry |  |  | the ammunition wagons |  | outside the general's quarters | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at wagon=Location |
| 3 | **give** | past · progressive | the general | a great dinner |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | a multitude of officers and gentlemen |  | general |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_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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