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title: So the poor man crossed himself, said “Glory be to Thee, O Lord! now… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the poor man crossed himself, said “Glory be to Thee, O Lord! now I can break the fast.” Who acts: poor man, Glory. 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 17

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So the poor man crossed himself, said “Glory be to Thee, O Lord! now I can break the fast.”

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**Who acts:** poor man, Glory · **What happens:** cross, say, be, break · **To what, where:** man, fast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poor man, Glory), 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:pg62509:33:17
# text = So the poor man crossed himself, said “Glory be to Thee, O Lord! now I can break the fast.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the poor man | man |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Glory |  |  |  |  | to Thee; Lord *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** *in a quote* | can | the poor man *= man* | the fast |  |  | now |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fast=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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