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title: “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; Two-eyes go to sleep… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; Two-eyes go to sleep, Close both eyes of thine.” Who acts: Sleep. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 13

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“Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; Two-eyes go to sleep, Close both eyes of thine.”

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**Who acts:** Sleep · **What happens:** go, sleep, close · **To what, where:** eyes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sleep), 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:pg62509:2:13
# text = “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; Two-eyes go to sleep, Close both eyes of thine.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Sleep and sister  mine |  |  |  |  | Two eyes *nsubj* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sleep and sister  mine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **close** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sleep and sister  mine *not said here* | both eyes of thine |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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