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title: One month had gone by, and he had drunk all his property away, pledg… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One month had gone by, and he had drunk all his property away, pledged his _izbá_[54] to a neighbour, and spent all the money in the inn. Who acts: One month, Sorrow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 18

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One month had gone by, and he had drunk all his property away, pledged his \_izbá\_\[54\] to a neighbour, and spent all the money in the inn.

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**Who acts:** One month, Sorrow · **What happens:** go by, drink, pledge, spend · **To what, where:** property, izbá, money, inn

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One month, Sorrow), 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:pg62509:36:18
# text = One month had gone by, and he had drunk all his property away, pledged his _izbá_[54] to a neighbour, and spent all the money in the inn.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	izbá	izbá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past · perfect | One month |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past · perfect | Sorrow | Sorrow's property |  |  |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient |
| 3 | **pledge** | past |  | Sorrow's izbá |  |  |  | 54 to a neighbour *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent izbá=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | past |  | all money |  | the inn |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |

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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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