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title: His shirt weighed fifteen _pud_, and his hat ten _pud_, and his stic… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His shirt weighed fifteen _pud_, and his hat ten _pud_, and his stick was ten _sazhéns_ long. Who acts: shirt, stick. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 107

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His shirt weighed fifteen \_pud\_, and his hat ten \_pud\_, and his stick was ten \_sazhéns\_ long.

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**Who acts:** shirt, stick · **What happens:** weigh, be · **To what, where:** fifteen pud, ten sazhéns

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt, stick), 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:pg62509:31:107
# text = His shirt weighed fifteen _pud_, and his hat ten _pud_, and his stick was ten _sazhéns_ long.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	pud	pud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pud	pud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sazhéns	sazhén	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | past | passer's shirt | fifteen pud |  |  |  | hat pud *parataxis* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pud=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | past | passer's stick | ten sazhéns |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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