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title: And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the angels strip off from h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the angels strip off from him that garb and crown which would befit a Tsar, and lay it on the throne of the Lord. Who acts: Sun, angels, garb. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

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And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the angels strip off from him that garb and crown which would befit a Tsar, and lay it on the throne of the Lord.

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**Who acts:** Sun, angels, garb · **What happens:** wane, strip off, befit, lay · **To what, where:** garb, Tsar, sun, throne

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, angels, garb), 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:pg62509:6:67
# text = And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the angels strip off from him that garb and crown which would befit a Tsar, and lay it on the throne of the Lord.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wanes	wane	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	strip	strip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	befit	befit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wane** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | to the West | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **strip off** | present | the angels | that garb and crown |  |  | then | from boy | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent garb=Theme from he=Source |
| 3 | **befit** | would | that garb and crown | a Tsar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive | that garb and crown *not said here* | sun |  | the throne of the Lord |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on throne=Destination |

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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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