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title: And, if he gave corn, then it had to be returned in full in the summ… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, if he gave corn, then it had to be returned in full in the summer; and in addition to that, for every three pecks the debtor had to work two days on the lord’s field. Who acts: peasant, corn, debtor, three pecks. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 128

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And, if he gave corn, then it had to be returned in full in the summer; and in addition to that, for every three pecks the debtor had to work two days on the lord’s field.

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**Who acts:** peasant, corn, debtor, three pecks · **What happens:** give, have, return, work · **To what, where:** corn, addition, full, three pecks

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, corn, debtor, three pecks), 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:pg62509:34:128
# text = And, if he gave corn, then it had to be returned in full in the summer; and in addition to that, for every three pecks the debtor had to work two days on the lord’s field.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	pecks	peck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	debtor	debtor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | peasant | corn |  | addition to that and every three pecks |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | corn |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive · passive | corn *not said here* |  |  | full | summer |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **have** | past | the debtor | every three pecks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | every three pecks *not said here* |  |  |  | day | on the lord's field | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on field=Theme |

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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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