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title: But the bones came and sat at the table just like men, and said to t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the bones came and sat at the table just like men, and said to the maidens, “Now give us the brandy.” Who acts: bones. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 108

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But the bones came and sat at the table just like men, and said to the maidens, “Now give us the brandy.”

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**Who acts:** bones · **What happens:** come, sit, say, give · **To what, where:** table, maidens, brandy, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones), 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:pg62509:25:109
# text = But the bones came and sat at the table just like men, and said to the maidens, “Now give us the brandy.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the bones *not said here* |  |  | the table |  | like men | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the maidens |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the brandy | us |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient brandy=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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