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title: Iván went into the church and began to read the Psalter, and after l… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iván went into the church and began to read the Psalter, and after lighting the third candle, lay down on the right-hand side of the grave. Who acts: 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 11

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Iván went into the church and began to read the Psalter, and after lighting the third candle, lay down on the right-hand side of the grave.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** go, begin, read, light, lay down · **To what, where:** church, Psalter, third candle, hand side

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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 (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:pg62509:22:11
# text = Iván went into the church and began to read the Psalter, and after lighting the third candle, lay down on the right-hand side of the grave.
1	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Psalter	Psalter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	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 | **go** | past | Iván |  |  | the church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* | the Psalter |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic |
| 4 | **light** | gerund |  | the third candle |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product |
| 5 | **lay down** | infinitive | Iván *not said here* |  |  | the hand side of the grave |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |

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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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