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description: They sat down at the tables: there were all sorts of dishes and of foreign drinks. Who acts: companions, sorts. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

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They sat down at the tables: there were all sorts of dishes and of foreign drinks.

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**Who acts:** companions, sorts · **What happens:** sit down, be, sort · **To what, where:** tables, dishes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, sorts), 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:pg62509:4:123
# text = They sat down at the tables: there were all sorts of dishes and of foreign drinks.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  | the tables |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | all sorts of dishes and foreign drinks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | dishes and foreign drinks |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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