--- title: The soldier said: “Your Imperial Majesty, there is nobody in the wor… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The soldier said: “Your Imperial Majesty, there is nobody in the world who can cure you. Who acts: soldier, nobody. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/) / 61 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 61 The soldier said: “Your Imperial Majesty, there is nobody in the world who can cure you. **Who acts:** soldier, nobody · **What happens:** say, be, cure · **To what, where:** Imperial Majesty, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:13:61 # text = The soldier said: “Your Imperial Majesty, there is nobody in the world who can cure you. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soldier | | | | | Your Imperial Majesty *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nobody in the world | Your Imperial Majesty *not said here* | | there | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majesty=Theme | | 3 | **cure** *in a quote* | can | | you | | | | who *nsubj* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/62/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/13/)