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title: And when he saw them weep, Nikíta the tanner himself almost felt the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he saw them weep, Nikíta the tanner himself almost felt the tears flowing. Who acts: NIKÍTA, children, tears. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 33

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And when he saw them weep, Nikíta the tanner himself almost felt the tears flowing.

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**Who acts:** NIKÍTA, children, tears · **What happens:** see, weep, feel, flow · **To what, where:** children, Nikíta, tears

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (NIKÍTA, children, tears), 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:pg62509:32:33
# text = And when he saw them weep, Nikíta the tanner himself almost felt the tears flowing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Nikíta	Nikíta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
12	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | Nikíta |  |  |  | the tanner *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | the tears |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
| 4 | **flow** | gerund | the tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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