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title: So they changed the requiem for a merry festival, and lived out thei… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they changed the requiem for a merry festival, and lived out their lives, and lived on to receive more good yet! Who acts: geese. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 14

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So they changed the requiem for a merry festival, and lived out their lives, and lived on to receive more good yet!

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**Who acts:** geese · **What happens:** change, live out, live on, receive · **To what, where:** requiem, lives, more

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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), 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:pg62509:28:14
# text = So they changed the requiem for a merry festival, and lived out their lives, and lived on to receive more good yet!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	requiem	requiem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | geese *= goose* | the requiem |  |  |  | for a merry festival | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent requiem=Theme for festival=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **live out** | past | geese *= goose* *not said here* | geese's lives |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 3 | **live on** | past | geese *= goose* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **receive** | to-infinitive | geese *= goose* *not said here* | more |  |  | yet |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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