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title: You have only to take this herb”—pointing to a herb on the shore—“co… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You have only to take this herb”—pointing to a herb on the shore—“cook it, boil her in the brew, and she will be healed.” Who acts: You. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 116

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You have only to take this herb”—pointing to a herb on the shore—“cook it, boil her in the brew, and she will be healed.”

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** take, point, cook, boil, heal · **To what, where:** herb, shore, person

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:20:116
# text = You have only to take this herb”—pointing to a herb on the shore—“cook it, boil her in the brew, and she will be healed.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brew	brew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | You | this herb |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme |
| 2 | **point** *in a quote* | gerund | You *not said here* |  | a herb | the shore |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herb=Recipient |
| 3 | **cook** | infinitive | You *not said here* | herb |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **boil** | infinitive | You *not said here* | person |  |  |  | in the brew | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient in brew=Instrument |
| 5 | **heal** | future · passive |  | person |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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