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title: So the tanner took the plough, which weighed three hundred _puds_, a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the tanner took the plough, which weighed three hundred _puds_, and harnessed to it the dragon, and drew the harrow all the way from Kíev to the Caspian Sea. Who acts: tanner, plough. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 44

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So the tanner took the plough, which weighed three hundred \_puds\_, and harnessed to it the dragon, and drew the harrow all the way from Kíev to the Caspian Sea.

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**Who acts:** tanner, plough · **What happens:** take, weigh, harness, draw · **To what, where:** plough, hundred puds, dragon, harrow

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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 (tanner, plough), 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:pg62509:32:44
# text = So the tanner took the plough, which weighed three hundred _puds_, and harnessed to it the dragon, and drew the harrow all the way from Kíev to the Caspian Sea.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	puds	pud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	harrow	harrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | the tanner | the plough |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme |
| 2 | **weigh** | past | the plough | hundred puds |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pud=Value |
| 3 | **harness** | participle | the tanner *not said here* | the dragon | plough |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **draw** | past | the tanner *not said here* | the harrow |  |  |  | all way from Kíev to the Caspian Sea *parataxis* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harrow=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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