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title: Then they brought the boughs into the cemetery, put them into a pile… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they brought the boughs into the cemetery, put them into a pile and raised the wizard out of the grave, put him on the faggots and burned him. Who acts: cartloads. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 28

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Then they brought the boughs into the cemetery, put them into a pile and raised the wizard out of the grave, put him on the faggots and burned him.

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**Who acts:** cartloads · **What happens:** bring, put, raise, burn · **To what, where:** boughs, cemetery, cartloads, pile, wizard, grave

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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 (cartloads), 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:pg62509:3:28
# text = Then they brought the boughs into the cemetery, put them into a pile and raised the wizard out of the grave, put him on the faggots and burned him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	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	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	faggots	faggot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	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 | **bring** | past | cartloads *= cartload* | the boughs |  | the cemetery | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bough=Theme into cemetery=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | cartloads *= cartload* *not said here* | cartloads *= cartload* |  | a pile |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 3 | **raise** | past | cartloads *= cartload* *not said here* | the wizard |  | the grave |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme out grave=Destination |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | cartloads *= cartload* *not said here* | wizard |  | the faggots |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on faggot=Destination |
| 5 | **burn** | past | cartloads *= cartload* *not said here* | wizard |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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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