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title: When Nikíta had done this feat, he demanded no reward for it, but we… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Nikíta had done this feat, he demanded no reward for it, but went home and went on tanning. Who acts: Nikíta, NIKÍTA. 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 50

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When Nikíta had done this feat, he demanded no reward for it, but went home and went on tanning.

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**Who acts:** Nikíta, NIKÍTA · **What happens:** do, demand, go · **To what, where:** feat, reward, tanning

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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, NIKÍTA), 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:pg62509:32:50
# text = When Nikíta had done this feat, he demanded no reward for it, but went home and went on tanning.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Nikíta	Nikíta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tanning	tanning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Nikíta | this feat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | no reward |  |  |  | for reward | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reward=Precondition |
| 3 | **go** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* *not said here* |  |  | tanning |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tanning=Location |

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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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