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title: Then the father set sail with his goods into foreign lands, and the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the father set sail with his goods into foreign lands, and the son sat on the counter and engaged in trade. Who acts: father, son. 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 31

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Then the father set sail with his goods into foreign lands, and the son sat on the counter and engaged in trade.

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**Who acts:** father, son · **What happens:** set, sit, engage · **To what, where:** sail, foreign lands, counter, trade

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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 (father, son), 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:pg62509:28:31
# text = Then the father set sail with his goods into foreign lands, and the son sat on the counter and engaged in trade.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the father | sail |  | foreign lands | then | with father's goods | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sail=Patient with goods=Instrument |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the son |  |  | the counter |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on counter=Location |
| 3 | **engage** | participle | the son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in trade *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=Goal |

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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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