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title: But they had long, long ago been praying for the repose of his soul… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But they had long, long ago been praying for the repose of his soul at home, and how glad they were to see him turn up alive and sound! Who acts: geese, Fílyushka, soul. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 13

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But they had long, long ago been praying for the repose of his soul at home, and how glad they were to see him turn up alive and sound!

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**Who acts:** geese, Fílyushka, soul · **What happens:** have, pray, see, turn up, repose · **To what, where:** home, Fílyushka

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese, Fílyushka, soul), 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:pg62509:28:13
# text = But they had long, long ago been praying for the repose of his soul at home, and how glad they were to see him turn up alive and sound!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | geese *= goose* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | participle · progressive | geese *= goose* *not said here* |  |  | home |  | for the repose of Fílyushka's soul; ago, long *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for repose=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | geese *= goose* | Fílyushka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn up** | infinitive | Fílyushka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **repose** |  | Fílyushka's soul |  |  |  |  |  | nom repose «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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