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title: There was another bout next day, and you could never see an end of t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was another bout next day, and you could never see an end of the _boyárs_ and the lords seated at the royal palace. Who acts: bout, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 134

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There was another bout next day, and you could never see an end of the \_boyárs\_ and the lords seated at the royal palace.

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**Who acts:** bout, you · **What happens:** be, not see, seat · **To what, where:** end, lords, royal palace

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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 (bout, you), 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:pg62509:26:134
# text = There was another bout next day, and you could never see an end of the _boyárs_ and the lords seated at the royal palace.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
23	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another bout |  |  | there | day | the lords *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | could | you | a end of the boyárs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seat** | participle |  | the lords *not said here* |  | the royal palace |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

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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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