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description: And he brought it to Christ, Who said: “Now you have been weaving this rope for thirty years and have laboured sufficiently for your mother, rescue her out of Hell.” Who acts: Lord, Christ, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 16

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And he brought it to Christ, Who said: “Now you have been weaving this rope for thirty years and have laboured sufficiently for your mother, rescue her out of Hell.”

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**Who acts:** Lord, Christ, you · **What happens:** bring, say, weave, labour, rescue · **To what, where:** rope, Christ, mother, Hell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lord, Christ, 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:pg62509:20:16
# text = And he brought it to Christ, Who said: “Now you have been weaving this rope for thirty years and have laboured sufficiently for your mother, rescue her out of Hell.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	laboured	labour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
25	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Lord | rope | Christ |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to christ=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Christ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weave** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | you | this rope |  |  | now; year |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product |
| 4 | **labour** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your mother; sufficiently *property* | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rescue** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lord *not said here* | mother |  | Hell |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme out hell=Source |

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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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