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title: And then, as plain as plain could be, (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), There… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, as plain as plain could be, (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), There sits my sister wha drowned me! Who acts: sister wha. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 142

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And then, as plain as plain could be, (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), There sits my sister wha drowned me!

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**Who acts:** sister wha · **What happens:** be, sit, drown · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister wha), 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:pg62509:39:142
# text = And then, as plain as plain could be, (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), There sits my sister wha drowned me!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	wha	wha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could |  |  |  |  |  | as plain Binnorie; Binnorie *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drown** | past | my sister wha | me |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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