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title: An archimandrite one day got up for matins; and, whilst laving his h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: An archimandrite one day got up for matins; and, whilst laving his hands, saw an unclean spirit in the Holy Water, seized him and crossed him. Who acts: archimandrite. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 108

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An archimandrite one day got up for matins; and, whilst laving his hands, saw an unclean spirit in the Holy Water, seized him and crossed him.

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**Who acts:** archimandrite · **What happens:** get up, lave, see, seize, cross · **To what, where:** hands, unclean spirit, Holy Water, archimandrite

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archimandrite), 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:pg62509:33:108
# text = An archimandrite one day got up for matins; and, whilst laving his hands, saw an unclean spirit in the Holy Water, seized him and crossed him.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archimandrite	archimandrite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	matins	matin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	laving	lave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	24	compound	_	_
24	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | a archimandrite  one day |  |  |  |  | for matins | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for matin=Source |
| 2 | **lave** | gerund |  | archimandrite's hands |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | a unclean spirit |  | the Holy Water |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 4 | **seize** | past |  | archimandrite |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **cross** | past |  | archimandrite |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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