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title: In the morning they went there to collect his bones; but there Iván… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning they went there to collect his bones; but there Iván was, as large as life. Who acts: they, Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 1

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In the morning they went there to collect his bones; but there Iván was, as large as life.

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**Who acts:** they, Iván · **What happens:** go, collect, be · **To what, where:** bones

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, 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:pg62509:22:1
# text = In the morning they went there to collect his bones; but there Iván was, as large as life.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  | there | morning |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **collect** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | his bones |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Iván  there |  |  |  |  | as life; large *property* | tree rules |

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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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