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title: Then the poor man showed the servant the stone with which he had thr… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the poor man showed the servant the stone with which he had threatened the judge: “If the judge had not decided in my favour I should have killed him with this stone!” Who acts: poor man, man, judge, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependenc
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 25

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Then the poor man showed the servant the stone with which he had threatened the judge: “If the judge had not decided in my favour I should have killed him with this stone!”

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**Who acts:** poor man, man, judge, my · **What happens:** show, threaten, not decide, kill, favour · **To what, where:** servant, judge, favour, Shemyák

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, man, judge, my), 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:pg62509:21:25
# text = Then the poor man showed the servant the stone with which he had threatened the judge: “If the judge had not decided in my favour I should have killed him with this stone!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the poor man | the servant |  |  | then | the stone *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient stone=Topic |
| 2 | **threaten** | past · perfect | man | the judge |  |  |  | with the stone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus judge=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **decide** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | the judge |  |  | my favour |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | should · perfect · passive | the judge *not said here* | Shemyák |  |  |  | with this stone; man *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
| 5 | **favour** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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