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title: “Now, Death,” said the soldier, “give me only three hours’ interval… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, Death,” said the soldier, “give me only three hours’ interval in order that I may go home and say farewell to my wife and my son.” Who acts: Death. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 72

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“Now, Death,” said the soldier, “give me only three hours’ interval in order that I may go home and say farewell to my wife and my son.”

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**Who acts:** Death · **What happens:** say, give, go · **To what, where:** soldier, hours interval, Death, order, farewell, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Death), 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:pg62509:13:72
# text = “Now, Death,” said the soldier, “give me only three hours’ interval in order that I may go home and say farewell to my wife and my son.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Death | the soldier |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | hours interval | Death | order |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient interval=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | may | Death |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Death *not said here* | farewell | my wife and my son |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to wife=Recipient |

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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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