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title: Nikíta the tanner fought the grisly worm some time, maybe long, mayb… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nikíta the tanner fought the grisly worm some time, maybe long, maybe short, and at last got him under. Who acts: Nikíta tanner. 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 38

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Nikíta the tanner fought the grisly worm some time, maybe long, maybe short, and at last got him under.

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**Who acts:** Nikíta tanner · **What happens:** fight, get · **To what, where:** grisly worm, worm, last

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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 tanner), 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:pg62509:32:38
# text = Nikíta the tanner fought the grisly worm some time, maybe long, maybe short, and at last got him under.
1	Nikíta	Nikíta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grisly	grisly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | the Nikíta tanner | the grisly worm |  |  | time | long *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past |  | worm |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset |

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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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