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title: The old man said to the peasant: “Go home and wait until the summer;… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man said to the peasant: “Go home and wait until the summer; you will have bread enough.” Who acts: old man, peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 100

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The old man said to the peasant: “Go home and wait until the summer; you will have bread enough.”

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**Who acts:** old man, peasant · **What happens:** say, go, wait, have · **To what, where:** peasant, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, peasant), 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:pg62509:35:100
# text = The old man said to the peasant: “Go home and wait until the summer; you will have bread enough.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  | the peasant |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peasant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | summer |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | future | the peasant *= peasant* | bread |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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