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title: Katomá crept out from the bank and turned round on her, threw himsel… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Katomá crept out from the bank and turned round on her, threw himself on her life a mountain of iron. Who acts: Katomá. 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 18

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Katomá crept out from the bank and turned round on her, threw himself on her life a mountain of iron.

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**Who acts:** Katomá · **What happens:** creep out, turn round, throw · **To what, where:** bank, Katomá, life

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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 (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:pg62509:39:18
# text = Katomá crept out from the bank and turned round on her, threw himself on her life a mountain of iron.
1	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep out** | past | Katomá |  |  | the bank |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bank=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn round** | past | Katomá *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Bába; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on she=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw** | past |  | Katomá |  | Bába's life |  | a mountain of iron *obj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination mountain=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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