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title: The peasant bound up sheaf after sheaf, built rick after rick; carte… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The peasant bound up sheaf after sheaf, built rick after rick; carted it away and stacked it. Who acts: peasant. 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 62

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The peasant bound up sheaf after sheaf, built rick after rick; carted it away and stacked it.

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**Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** bind up, build, cart away, stack · **To what, where:** peasant, rick

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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 (peasant), 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:pg62509:26:62
# text = The peasant bound up sheaf after sheaf, built rick after rick; carted it away and stacked it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
10	rick	rick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rick	rick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	carted	cart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	stacked	stack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind up** | participle |  | the peasant *not said here* |  |  | after sheaf |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | participle | the peasant *not said here* | rick |  |  | after rick |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rick=Product |
| 3 | **cart away** | past | the peasant | rick |  |  |  | away *property* | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **stack** | past | the peasant *not said here* | rick |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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