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title: But wherever he ventured forth there were lofty walls, with neither… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But wherever he ventured forth there were lofty walls, with neither an entrance nor an exit. Who acts: Cossack. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 75

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But wherever he ventured forth there were lofty walls, with neither an entrance nor an exit.

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**Who acts:** Cossack · **What happens:** venture, be · **To what, where:** lofty walls

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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 (Cossack), 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:pg62509:34:75
# text = But wherever he ventured forth there were lofty walls, with neither an entrance nor an exit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | past | Cossack | lofty walls |  |  |  | neither entrance nor a exit *parataxis*; forth, wherever *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wall=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past | Cossack *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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