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title: They entered into a partnership and went together to look for work,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They entered into a partnership and went together to look for work, and they rambled about until they came to a rich village and got work with different masters. Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 83

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They entered into a partnership and went together to look for work, and they rambled about until they came to a rich village and got work with different masters.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** enter, go together, look, ramble, come, get · **To what, where:** partnership, rich village, work

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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:pg62509:20:83
# text = They entered into a partnership and went together to look for work, and they rambled about until they came to a rich village and got work with different masters.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	partnership	partnership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rambled	ramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Iván |  |  | a partnership |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go together** | past | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme |
| 4 | **ramble** | past | Iván |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | Iván |  |  | a rich village |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **get** | past | Iván *not said here* | work |  |  |  | with different masters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |

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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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