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title: One day Svyatogór was walking on the earth and laid hold of a wallet… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Svyatogór was walking on the earth and laid hold of a wallet which an old man whom he met wandering by held. Who acts: Svyatogór, wallet, hold. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 129

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One day Svyatogór was walking on the earth and laid hold of a wallet which an old man whom he met wandering by held.

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**Who acts:** Svyatogór, wallet, hold · **What happens:** walk, lay, man, meet, wonder, hold · **To what, where:** earth, hold, old man, wallet

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Svyatogór, wallet, hold), 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:pg62509:40:129
# text = One day Svyatogór was walking on the earth and laid hold of a wallet which an old man whom he met wandering by held.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Svyatogór	Svyatogór	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	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 | **walk** | past · progressive | Svyatogór |  |  | the earth | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Svyatogór *not said here* | hold of a wallet |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 3 | **man** |  | a wallet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | past | hold | a old man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | hold *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **hold** | participle | hold *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | a wallet |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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