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title: The Saviour said: “Keg, go and roll to the rich peasant’s door.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Saviour said: “Keg, go and roll to the rich peasant’s door.” Who acts: Saviour, Keg. 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 142

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The Saviour said: “Keg, go and roll to the rich peasant’s door.”

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**Who acts:** Saviour, Keg · **What happens:** say, go, roll · **To what, where:** door · **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 (Saviour, Keg), 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:pg62509:15:142
# text = The Saviour said: “Keg, go and roll to the rich peasant’s door.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Saviour	saviour	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	Keg	keg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | the Saviour |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Keg |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** *in a quote* | infinitive | Keg *not said here* |  |  | the rich peasant's door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=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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