--- title: Then the ambassadors retired, and they waited one hour and another h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the ambassadors retired, and they waited one hour and another hour, and they knocked again: “This is not the time and season to sleep; this is the time and season to get up.” Who acts: ambassadors, This. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/) / 86 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 86 Then the ambassadors retired, and they waited one hour and another hour, and they knocked again: “This is not the time and season to sleep; this is the time and season to get up.” **Who acts:** ambassadors, This · **What happens:** retire, wait, knock, not be, sleep, be · **To what, where:** time · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ambassadors, This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:30:86 # text = Then the ambassadors retired, and they waited one hour and another hour, and they knocked again: “This is not the time and season to sleep; this is the time and season to get up.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ambassadors ambassador NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 retired retire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **retire** | past | the ambassadors | | | | then | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | past | ambassadors *= ambassador* | | | | hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **knock** | past | ambassadors *= ambassador* | | | | again | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the time and season | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | ambassadors *= ambassador* *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the time and season | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the ambassadors *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/)