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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 153

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When the meal was over the guests rose from table and bowed their thanks to the master and mistress, and the poor man also stood up from his bench and bowed down deep before his brother; and the guests went home drunken and merry, noisily singing songs.

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**Who acts:** meal, poor man, guests · **What happens:** be, rise, bow, stand up, bow down, go · **To what, where:** table, thanks, master, bench, songs

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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 (meal, poor man, guests), 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:pg62509:35:153
# text = When the meal was over the guests rose from table and bowed their thanks to the master and mistress, and the poor man also stood up from his bench and bowed down deep before his brother; and the guests went home drunken and merry, noisily singing songs.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
43	home	home	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	noisily	noisily	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
50	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | over the guests | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the meal |  |  | table |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bow** | past | the meal *not said here* | brothers's thanks | the master and mistress |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to master=Recipient |
| 4 | **stand up** | past | the poor man |  |  | guest's bench |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bow down** | past | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  | before guest's brother | deep, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before brother=Location |
| 6 | **go** | past | the guests |  |  |  |  | drunken, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the guests *not said here* | songs |  |  |  | noisily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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