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title: Then that same youth came forward who had invited Petrúsha to pay hi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then that same youth came forward who had invited Petrúsha to pay him a visit, and he began to entertain him with all sorts of sweetmeats and drinks. Who acts: same youth, Petrúsha, youth. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 33

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Then that same youth came forward who had invited Petrúsha to pay him a visit, and he began to entertain him with all sorts of sweetmeats and drinks.

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**Who acts:** same youth, Petrúsha, youth · **What happens:** come forward, invite, pay, begin, entertain, sort · **To what, where:** Petrúsha, youth, sweetmeats

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same youth, Petrúsha, youth), 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:pg62509:5:34
# text = Then that same youth came forward who had invited Petrúsha to pay him a visit, and he began to entertain him with all sorts of sweetmeats and drinks.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	Petrúsha	Petrúsha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	entertain	entertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | that same youth |  |  |  | then | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **invite** | past · perfect · passive |  | Petrúsha |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Petrúsha *not said here* |  | Petrúsha |  |  | a visit *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset |
| 4 | **begin** | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **entertain** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | youth |  |  |  | with all sorts of sweetmeats and drinks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | sweetmeats and 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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