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title: Then the second night came: “Brothers, I read the prayers last night… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the second night came: “Brothers, I read the prayers last night,” Ványa said; “it’s your turn; which of you will go?” Who acts: second night, brothers, Ványa, hair. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 113

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Then the second night came: “Brothers, I read the prayers last night,” Ványa said; “it’s your turn; which of you will go?”

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**Who acts:** second night, brothers, Ványa, hair · **What happens:** come, read, say, be, go · **To what, where:** Brothers, prayers, turn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second night, brothers, Ványa, hair), 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:pg62509:26:113
# text = Then the second night came: “Brothers, I read the prayers last night,” Ványa said; “it’s your turn; which of you will go?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	Ványa	Ványa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the second night | Brothers |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** *in a quote* | past | the brothers *= brother* | the prayers |  |  | night |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Ványa |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hair | your turn |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; you *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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