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title: In villages there is a general bath-house to which the peasants go o… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In villages there is a general bath-house to which the peasants go once a week. Who acts: general bath house, peasants. 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 168

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In villages there is a general bath-house to which the peasants go once a week.

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**Who acts:** general bath house, peasants · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** villages, general bath house

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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 (general bath house, peasants), 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:pg62509:39:168
# text = In villages there is a general bath-house to which the peasants go once a week.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a general bath house |  |  | villages; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **go** | present | the peasants |  |  | a general bath house |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial\_Location |

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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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