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title: This time the master of the ship believed him, and returned to the i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the master of the ship believed him, and returned to the island, and he saw the twelve bold pirates go sailing by. Who acts: master, Vásya, twelve bold pirates. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 94

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This time the master of the ship believed him, and returned to the island, and he saw the twelve bold pirates go sailing by.

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**Who acts:** master, Vásya, twelve bold pirates · **What happens:** believe, return, see, go, sail · **To what, where:** Vásya

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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 (master, Vásya, twelve bold pirates), 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:pg62509:6:94
# text = This time the master of the ship believed him, and returned to the island, and he saw the twelve bold pirates go sailing by.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	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	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the master of the ship | Vásya |  |  | time |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **return** | past | the master of the ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the island *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result |
| 3 | **see** | past | Vásya |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | present | the twelve bold pirates |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sail** | gerund | the twelve bold pirates *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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