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title: They assembled all the people in countless hosts, and for three whol… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They assembled all the people in countless hosts, and for three whole days they gave food and drink to all without requital, without any charge. Who acts: drums. 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 61

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They assembled all the people in countless hosts, and for three whole days they gave food and drink to all without requital, without any charge.

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**Who acts:** drums · **What happens:** assemble, give · **To what, where:** people, countless hosts, food, all

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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 (drums), 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:pg62509:8:61
# text = They assembled all the people in countless hosts, and for three whole days they gave food and drink to all without requital, without any charge.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	requital	requital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | drums *= drum* | all people |  | countless hosts |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | drums *= drum* | food and drink | all |  | day | without requital; any charge *conj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to all=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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