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title: “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; One eye go to sleep,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; One eye go to sleep, Close that eye of thine.” Who acts: One eye. 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 3

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“Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; One eye go to sleep, Close that eye of thine.”

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**Who acts:** One eye · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** sleep

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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 (One eye), 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:pg62509:2:3
# text = “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; One eye go to sleep, Close that eye of thine.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	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	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	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* | infinitive | One eye |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_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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