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title: Katomá all day long sat on his tree-stump without meat or drink, but… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Katomá all day long sat on his tree-stump without meat or drink, but could not descend, and he thought: “I must die of hunger.” Who acts: Katomá. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 111

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Katomá all day long sat on his tree-stump without meat or drink, but could not descend, and he thought: “I must die of hunger.”

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**Who acts:** Katomá · **What happens:** sit, not descend, think, die · **To what, where:** tree stump · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katomá), 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:pg62509:38:112
# text = Katomá all day long sat on his tree-stump without meat or drink, but could not descend, and he thought: “I must die of hunger.”
1	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Katomá |  |  | Katomá's tree stump |  | without meat or drink; long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location |
| 2 | **not** **descend** | could | Katomá *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Katomá |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | must | Katomá |  |  |  |  | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |

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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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