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title: Ídolishche could not stand this affront, and said, “Hail, wandering… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ídolishche could not stand this affront, and said, “Hail, wandering beggar! Who acts: Ídolishche. 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 8

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Ídolishche could not stand this affront, and said, “Hail, wandering beggar!

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**Who acts:** Ídolishche · **What happens:** not stand, say, wonder · **To what, where:** affront, Hail, beggar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ídolishche), 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:pg62509:32:8
# text = Ídolishche could not stand this affront, and said, “Hail, wandering beggar!
1	Ídolishche	Ídolishche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	affront	affront	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | could | Ídolishche | this affront |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affront=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  | Hail |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund |  | beggar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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