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title: Then the soldier made use of his devil: “There are twelve carts; pil… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the soldier made use of his devil: “There are twelve carts; pile them all high at once with gold.” Who acts: soldier, twelve carts, made use. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 44

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Then the soldier made use of his devil: “There are twelve carts; pile them all high at once with gold.”

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**Who acts:** soldier, twelve carts, made use · **What happens:** make, use, be, pile · **To what, where:** carts

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, twelve carts, made use), 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:pg62509:37:44
# text = Then the soldier made use of his devil: “There are twelve carts; pile them all high at once with gold.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pile	pile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **use** |  | the soldier |  |  |  | then | of soldier's devil | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** *in a quote* | present | twelve carts |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pile** *in a quote* | infinitive | made use | carts *= cart* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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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