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title: Soon a boy was born who grew not by days but by hours; and at the en… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon a boy was born who grew not by days but by hours; and at the end of a week he could already talk. Who acts: boy. 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 28

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Soon a boy was born who grew not by days but by hours; and at the end of a week he could already talk.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** bear, not grow, talk · **To what, where:** boy, end

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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 (boy), 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:pg62509:33:28
# text = Soon a boy was born who grew not by days but by hours; and at the end of a week he could already talk.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | a boy |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | past |  |  |  |  | day | who *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | could | boy |  |  |  | at the end of a week |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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