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title: Meanwhile, somehow or other, the peasant’s field righted itself; new… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, somehow or other, the peasant’s field righted itself; new shoots sprang up out of the old roots, the rain poured down on them, and nourished the earth; wonderful fresh corn grew up, lofty and thick; not a weed to be seen; and the ears were so full that they bowed down to earth. Who acts: 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 60

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Meanwhile, somehow or other, the peasant’s field righted itself; new shoots sprang up out of the old roots, the rain poured down on them, and nourished the earth; wonderful fresh corn grew up, lofty and thick; not a weed to be seen; and the ears were so full that they bowed down to earth.

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**Who acts:** field, new shoots, wonderful fresh corn, ears, fields · **What happens:** right, spring up, pour down, nourish, grow up, see · **To what, where:** loss, old roots, rain, earth, weed

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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 (field, new shoots, wonderful fresh corn, ears), 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:pg62509:26:60
# text = Meanwhile, somehow or other, the peasant’s field righted itself; new shoots sprang up out of the old roots, the rain poured down on them, and nourished the earth; wonderful fresh corn grew up, lofty and thick; not a weed to be seen; and the ears were so full that they bowed down to earth.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	righted	right	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
62	down	down	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **right** | past | the peasant's field | loss |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring up** | past | new shoots |  |  | the old roots and the rain |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out root=Location |
| 3 | **pour down** | participle |  | the rain *not said here* |  |  |  | on fields *= field* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **nourish** | participle | new shoots *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 5 | **grow up** | past | wonderful fresh corn | a weed |  |  |  | lofty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | wonderful fresh corn *not said here* | a weed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 7 | **is** | past | the ears |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **bow down** | past | fields *= field* |  |  |  |  | to earth; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=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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