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title: And they said to him: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, how… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said to him: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, how long shall we remain in pain?” Who acts: maidens, 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 149

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And they said to him: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, how long shall we remain in pain?”

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**Who acts:** maidens, we · **What happens:** say, remain · **To what, where:** Brother, Lord, 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 (maidens, 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:pg62509:19:149
# text = And they said to him: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, how long shall we remain in pain?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | maidens *= maiden* | Brother of Christ and speak of us | Lord |  |  | to Christ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **remain** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  | pain |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=Location |

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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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