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title: He took thirty _puds_ of hemp, tarred it, and swathed himself in it… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He took thirty _puds_ of hemp, tarred it, and swathed himself in it in order that the dragon might find him a hard morsel, and then set out. Who acts: NIKÍTA, dragon. 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 34

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He took thirty \_puds\_ of hemp, tarred it, and swathed himself in it in order that the dragon might find him a hard morsel, and then set out.

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**Who acts:** NIKÍTA, dragon · **What happens:** take, tar, swathe, find, set out · **To what, where:** thirty, TANNER, NIKÍTA

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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, dragon), 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:pg62509:32:34
# text = He took thirty _puds_ of hemp, tarred it, and swathed himself in it in order that the dragon might find him a hard morsel, and then set out.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	_	_	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	puds	pud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hemp	hemp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tarred	tar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	swathed	swathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | thirty |  |  |  | \_ puds and hemp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirty=Theme |
| 2 | **tar** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* *not said here* | TANNER |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 3 | **swathe** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* *not said here* | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* |  |  |  | in order; in TANNER | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in it=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | might | the dragon | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* |  |  |  | a hard morsel *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme morsel=Attribute |
| 5 | **set out** | infinitive | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | 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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