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title: If I go myself, the Accursèd King will receive me and will take me t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I go myself, the Accursèd King will receive me and will take me to himself as a wife. Who acts: I, Accursèd King. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 14

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If I go myself, the Accursèd King will receive me and will take me to himself as a wife.

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**Who acts:** I, Accursèd King · **What happens:** go, receive, take · **To what, where:** myself, me, King

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Accursèd King), 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:pg62509:10:14
# text = If I go myself, the Accursèd King will receive me and will take me to himself as a wife.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Accursèd	Accursèd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | myself |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | future | the Accursèd King | me |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | future | the Accursèd King *not said here* | me | King |  |  | as a wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to himself=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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