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title: That very Tuesday the youth set out on the footpath, and said: “The… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That very Tuesday the youth set out on the footpath, and said: “The Lord bless me!” and set out on his way journeying forth. Who acts: Lord, way. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 144

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That very Tuesday the youth set out on the footpath, and said: “The Lord bless me!” and set out on his way journeying forth.

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**Who acts:** Lord, way · **What happens:** set out, say, bless, journey · **To what, where:** youth, footpath, me, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, way), 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:pg62509:19:144
# text = That very Tuesday the youth set out on the footpath, and said: “The Lord bless me!” and set out on his way journeying forth.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	footpath	footpath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle |  | the youth *not said here* |  | the footpath |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  | tuesday |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Lord | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **set out** | past |  |  |  | Lord's way |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** | gerund | Lord's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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