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description: Whatever you meet on the way, whether wild beast or bird that you would like to catch, just say to it: ‘Jump in here, beast or bird!’ and your wish will be carried out.” Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 129

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Whatever you meet on the way, whether wild beast or bird that you would like to catch, just say to it: ‘Jump in here, beast or bird!’ and your wish will be carried out.”

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** meet, like, catch, say, jump, carry out · **To what, where:** Whatever, way, wild beast, bird, beast, wish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg62509:12:129
# text = Whatever you meet on the way, whether wild beast or bird that you would like to catch, just say to it: ‘Jump in here, beast or bird!’ and your wish will be carried out.”
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | you | Whatever |  | the way |  | wild beast or bird *parataxis* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **like** | would | you | wild beast or bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | bird |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient |
| 5 | **jump** | infinitive | you *not said here* | beast or bird |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beast=Theme in here=Trajectory |
| 6 | **carry out** | future · passive |  | your wish |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **wish** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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