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title: “I have guests staying here, and my hut would be too small anyhow.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have guests staying here, and my hut would be too small anyhow.” Who acts: pope, guests, hut. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 168

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“I have guests staying here, and my hut would be too small anyhow.”

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**Who acts:** pope, guests, hut · **What happens:** have, stay, be · **To what, where:** guests

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope, guests, hut), 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:pg62509:9:168
# text = “I have guests staying here, and my hut would be too small anyhow.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | the pope *= pope* | guests |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | gerund | guests *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | would | my hut |  |  |  |  | anyhow, small *property* | tree rules |

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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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