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title: So he went to his stretch of land and saw such splendid blades of co… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went to his stretch of land and saw such splendid blades of corn, at which any soul might rejoice. Who acts: man, soul. 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 107

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So he went to his stretch of land and saw such splendid blades of corn, at which any soul might rejoice.

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**Who acts:** man, soul · **What happens:** go, see, rejoice · **To what, where:** stretch, such splendid blades

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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 (man, soul), 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:pg62509:35:107
# text = So he went to his stretch of land and saw such splendid blades of corn, at which any soul might rejoice.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  | man's stretch of land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stretch=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | man *not said here* | such splendid blades of corn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blade=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rejoice** | might | any soul |  |  | such splendid blades of corn |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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