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title: He rode over them and arrived at the Bryánski woods,[48] the miry sw… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode over them and arrived at the Bryánski woods,[48] the miry swamp, to the hazel-tree bridges, and to the Smoródina river. Who acts: man. 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 77

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He rode over them and arrived at the Bryánski woods,\[48\] the miry swamp, to the hazel-tree bridges, and to the Smoródina river.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** ride, arrive · **To what, where:** 48, Bryánski woods

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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 (man), 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:pg62509:31:77
# text = He rode over them and arrived at the Bryánski woods,[48] the miry swamp, to the hazel-tree bridges, and to the Smoródina river.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Bryánski	Bryánski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Smoródina	Smoródina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | man | 48 |  |  |  | over MÚROMETS *= múromet*; to the tree bridges; the miry swamp *obj*; the Smoródina river *parataxis* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent swamp=Theme over they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | the Bryánski woods |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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