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title: Danílo drank until he was drunk; and, when he was drunk, made boast… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Danílo drank until he was drunk; and, when he was drunk, made boast of his wife. Who acts: Danílo, DANÍLO, wife. 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 86

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Danílo drank until he was drunk; and, when he was drunk, made boast of his wife.

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**Who acts:** Danílo, DANÍLO, wife · **What happens:** drink, be, make, boast · **To what, where:** boast

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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 (Danílo, DANÍLO, 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:pg62509:4:86
# text = Danílo drank until he was drunk; and, when he was drunk, made boast of his wife.
1	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
16	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | Danílo |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | DANÍLO *= danílo* *not said here* | boast of DANÍLO's wife |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boast=Product |
| 5 | **boast** |  | DANÍLO's wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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