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title: In one house folks were singing so finely that Christ stayed to list… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In one house folks were singing so finely that Christ stayed to listen, whilst St. Peter went on. Who acts: Christ, Peter. 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 90

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In one house folks were singing so finely that Christ stayed to listen, whilst St. Peter went on.

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**Who acts:** Christ, Peter · **What happens:** sing, stay, listen, go on · **To what, where:** one house folks

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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 (Christ, Peter), 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:pg62509:37:92
# text = In one house folks were singing so finely that Christ stayed to listen, whilst St. Peter went on.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive |  |  |  | one house folks |  | finely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in folk=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | past | Christ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Christ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go on** | past | Peter  St. |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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