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title: “In a village near by a poor peasant has had a son; how will you rew… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “In a village near by a poor peasant has had a son; how will you reward him?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 105

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“In a village near by a poor peasant has had a son; how will you reward him?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, reward · **To what, where:** son, village

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg62509:8:105
# text = “In a village near by a poor peasant has had a son; how will you reward him?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | a son |  | a village by a poor peasant |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **reward** *in a quote* | future | you |  | son |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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