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title: He then set to wandering in the streets, and everywhere it was the s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He then set to wandering in the streets, and everywhere it was the same—not a single live soul to be seen! Who acts: soldier, stone. 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 7

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He then set to wandering in the streets, and everywhere it was the same—not a single live soul to be seen!

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**Who acts:** soldier, stone · **What happens:** set, wonder, be, see · **To what, where:** streets

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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 (soldier, stone), 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:pg62509:25:7
# text = He then set to wandering in the streets, and everywhere it was the same—not a single live soul to be seen!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | soldier |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | soldier *not said here* |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | stone |  |  |  |  | a single live soul *obl*; everywhere, same *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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