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title: “Go with God,” said the _guslyár_: “I do not need you at all.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go with God,” said the _guslyár_: “I do not need you at all.” Who acts: guslyár. 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 36

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“Go with God,” said the \_guslyár\_: “I do not need you at all.”

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**Who acts:** guslyár · **What happens:** go, say, not need · **To what, where:** you, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (guslyár), 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:pg62509:10:36
# text = “Go with God,” said the _guslyár_: “I do not need you at all.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	guslyár	guslyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with God | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with god=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the guslyár |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **need** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the guslyár *= guslyár* | you |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |

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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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