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title: My field was ravaged by hail, so he intervened, _bátyushka_, and gav… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My field was ravaged by hail, so he intervened, _bátyushka_, and gave me a crop twice as good.” Who acts: hail, NICHOLAS. 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 94

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My field was ravaged by hail, so he intervened, \_bátyushka\_, and gave me a crop twice as good.”

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**Who acts:** hail, NICHOLAS · **What happens:** ravage, intervene, give · **To what, where:** field, bátyushka, crop, me

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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 (hail, NICHOLAS), 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:pg62509:26:94
# text = My field was ravaged by hail, so he intervened, _bátyushka_, and gave me a crop twice as good.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	ravaged	ravage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	intervened	intervene	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bátyushka	bátyushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ravage** | past · passive | hail | My field |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **intervene** | past | NICHOLAS | bátyushka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | NICHOLAS *not said here* | a crop | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient crop=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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