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description: He went a little way, and he heard children crying: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, whether we must be long in pain?” Who acts: Lord, children, we. 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 145

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He went a little way, and he heard children crying: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, whether we must be long in pain?”

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**Who acts:** Lord, children, we · **What happens:** go, hear, cry, be · **To what, where:** little way, children, pain · **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, children, we), 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:pg62509:19:145
# text = He went a little way, and he heard children crying: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, whether we must be long in pain?”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Lord | a little way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Lord | children |  |  |  | Brother of Christ and speak of us to Christ *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | must | we |  |  | pain |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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