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title: “Ah!” he thought, “The slave rains on herself the blows if unfaithfu… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah!” he thought, “The slave rains on herself the blows if unfaithfully she mows. Who acts: Cossack, Tin. 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 81

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“Ah!” he thought, “The slave rains on herself the blows if unfaithfully she mows.

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**Who acts:** Cossack, Tin · **What happens:** think, mow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Tin), 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:pg62509:34:81
# text = “Ah!” he thought, “The slave rains on herself the blows if unfaithfully she mows.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	unfaithfully	unfaithfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	mows	mow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Cossack |  |  |  |  | the slave rains on Tin *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mow** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Tin |  |  |  |  | unfaithfully *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: 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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