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title: But she was ever thinking how she might destroy Katomá. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was ever thinking how she might destroy Katomá. Who acts: wife. 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 85

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But she was ever thinking how she might destroy Katomá.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** think, destroy · **To what, where:** Katomá

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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 (wife), 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:pg62509:38:86
# text = But she was ever thinking how she might destroy Katomá.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | wife |  |  |  | ever |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **destroy** | might | wife | Katomá |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent katomá=Patient |

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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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