--- title: So the peasant took the sarafán, drank it up; and he thought: “Now I… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the peasant took the sarafán, drank it up; and he thought: “Now I have not anything left, neither house, nor clothes, nor anything else for myself or my wife!” Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:36:23 # text = So the peasant took the sarafán, drank it up; and he thought: “Now I have not anything left, neither house, nor clothes, nor anything else for myself or my wife!” 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sarafán sarafán NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 22 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc _ _ 28 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 31 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 parataxis _ _ 32 else else ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 nmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the peasant | the sarafán | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarafán=Theme | | 2 | **drink up** | past | the peasant *not said here* | more | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | peasant | clothes | | | | anything for myself *parataxis* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | peasant | anything neither house | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/24/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/)