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title: Come, sit on me—on the grey Wolf—and say whither I shall take you an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, sit on me—on the grey Wolf—and say whither I shall take you and wherefore.” Who acts: you, I. 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 93

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Come, sit on me—on the grey Wolf—and say whither I shall take you and wherefore.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** come, sit, say, take · **To what, where:** grey Wolf, you · **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 (you, I), 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:pg62509:10:93
# text = Come, sit on me—on the grey Wolf—and say whither I shall take you and wherefore.”
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the grey Wolf |  | on me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | shall | I | you |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme wherefore=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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