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title: “Now, doctor, we are going to take you up to the authorities: if you… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, doctor, we are going to take you up to the authorities: if you can revive them it must be you who killed them!” Who acts: we, you. 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 90

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“Now, doctor, we are going to take you up to the authorities: if you can revive them it must be you who killed them!”

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**Who acts:** we, you · **What happens:** go, take up, revive, be, kill · **To what, where:** you, authorities

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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 (we, you), 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:pg62509:2:90
# text = “Now, doctor, we are going to take you up to the authorities: if you can revive them it must be you who killed them!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	revive	revive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 · progressive | we |  |  |  | now | doctor *vocative* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  | the authorities |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to authority=Destination |
| 3 | **revive** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | authorities *= authority* |  |  |  | doctor *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | must |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | you | authorities *= authority* |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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