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title: The poor man went with his brother, and surmised he would fare very… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man went with his brother, and surmised he would fare very badly, for the sentence would be exile; the poor man is a butt for all, as he cannot give anything. Who acts: poor man, man, sentence. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 3

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The poor man went with his brother, and surmised he would fare very badly, for the sentence would be exile; the poor man is a butt for all, as he cannot give anything.

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**Who acts:** poor man, man, sentence · **What happens:** go, surmise, fare, be, not give · **To what, where:** butt, anything

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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, sentence), 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:pg62509:21:3
# text = The poor man went with his brother, and surmised he would fare very badly, for the sentence would be exile; the poor man is a butt for all, as he cannot give anything.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	surmised	surmise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
38	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the poor man |  |  |  |  | with man's brother | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **surmise** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fare** | would | man |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | would | the sentence |  |  |  |  | for exile | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the poor man | a butt |  |  |  | for all | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **give** | can | man | anything |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

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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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