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title: “Cover me over with boards, my sworn brother,” he said. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Cover me over with boards, my sworn brother,” he said. Who acts: SVYATOGÓR. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 25

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“Cover me over with boards, my sworn brother,” he said.

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**Who acts:** SVYATOGÓR · **What happens:** cover over, swear, say · **To what, where:** SVYATOGÓR · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SVYATOGÓR), 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:pg62509:16:25
# text = “Cover me over with boards, my sworn brother,” he said.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover over** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | SVYATOGÓR *= svyatogór* |  |  | with boards; my sworn brother *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with board=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | SVYATOGÓR *= svyatogór* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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