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description: The Sea Tsar has bidden me thresh clean thirty hayricks of barley without destroying a hayrick or a single sheaf, and all in a single night.” Who acts: Sea Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 47

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The Sea Tsar has bidden me thresh clean thirty hayricks of barley without destroying a hayrick or a single sheaf, and all in a single night.”

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**Who acts:** Sea Tsar · **What happens:** bid, thresh, destroy · **To what, where:** me, clean thirty hayricks, hayrick

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Tsar), 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:pg62509:30:47
# text = The Sea Tsar has bidden me thresh clean thirty hayricks of barley without destroying a hayrick or a single sheaf, and all in a single night.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	thresh	thresh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hayricks	hayrick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hayrick	hayrick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | present · perfect | the Sea Tsar | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thresh** | infinitive | the Sea Tsar *not said here* | clean thirty hayricks of barley |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | gerund | the Sea Tsar *not said here* | a hayrick or a single sheaf |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hayrick=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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