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title: But on their way the wind arose and they sailed farther, and the rob… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But on their way the wind arose and they sailed farther, and the robbers fell on them again and began to search for the goods. Who acts: wind, bricks, robbers. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 80

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But on their way the wind arose and they sailed farther, and the robbers fell on them again and began to search for the goods.

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**Who acts:** wind, bricks, robbers · **What happens:** arise, sail, fall, begin, search · **To what, where:** way

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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 (wind, bricks, robbers), 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:pg62509:21:80
# text = But on their way the wind arose and they sailed farther, and the robbers fell on them again and began to search for the goods.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the wind |  |  | bricks's way |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 2 | **sail** | past | bricks *= brick* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the robbers |  |  |  | again | on bricks *= brick* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the robbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **search** | to-infinitive | the robbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the goods | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for goods=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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