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title: So he then turned sharp to the left and marched up to the _stárosta_… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he then turned sharp to the left and marched up to the _stárosta_[3] and bade him assemble all the peasants and prepare one hundred cartloads of aspen boughs. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 27

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So he then turned sharp to the left and marched up to the \_stárosta\_\[3\] and bade him assemble all the peasants and prepare one hundred cartloads of aspen boughs.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** turn, march up, assemble, prepare · **To what, where:** left, 3, bade, hundred cartloads

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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:pg62509:3:27
# text = So he then turned sharp to the left and marched up to the _stárosta_[3] and bade him assemble all the peasants and prepare one hundred cartloads of aspen boughs.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	stárosta	stárosta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	assemble	assemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	cartloads	cartload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	aspen	aspen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | soldier |  |  | the left | then | sharp *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to left=Trajectory |
| 2 | **march up** | past | soldier *not said here* | 3 |  |  |  | to the stárosta *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stárosta=Result |
| 3 | **assemble** | present | soldier *not said here* | bade  soldier |  |  |  | all peasants *obj* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent peasant=Theme |
| 4 | **prepare** | infinitive | soldier *not said here* | hundred cartloads of aspen boughs |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartload=Patient |

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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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