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title: “Lo and behold! woman, you said that there was nothing to feed us on… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lo and behold! woman, you said that there was nothing to feed us on,” the Saviour said. Who acts: you, nothing, Saviour. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 120

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“Lo and behold! woman, you said that there was nothing to feed us on,” the Saviour said.

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**Who acts:** you, nothing, Saviour · **What happens:** say, be, feed on · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing, Saviour), 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:pg62509:15:120
# text = “Lo and behold! woman, you said that there was nothing to feed us on,” the Saviour said.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feed on** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Saviour |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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