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title: “It is yet early: we have not yet had our sleep; come later on,” one… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is yet early: we have not yet had our sleep; come later on,” one pool answered. Who acts: embassy, we, one pool, our. 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 85

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“It is yet early: we have not yet had our sleep; come later on,” one pool answered.

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**Who acts:** embassy, we, one pool, our · **What happens:** be, not have, come on, answer, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (embassy, we, one pool, our), 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:pg62509:30:85
# text = “It is yet early: we have not yet had our sleep; come later on,” one pool answered.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | embassy |  |  |  | yet | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | our sleep |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
| 3 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | one pool |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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