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title: Are ye mighty knights of prowess or wandering wayfarers bearing your… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Are ye mighty knights of prowess or wandering wayfarers bearing your burdens? Who acts: ye, wayfarers, your. 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 38

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Are ye mighty knights of prowess or wandering wayfarers bearing your burdens?

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**Who acts:** ye, wayfarers, your · **What happens:** be, wonder, bear, burden · **To what, where:** mighty knights, wayfarers, burdens

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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 (ye, wayfarers, your), 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:pg62509:20:38
# text = Are ye mighty knights of prowess or wandering wayfarers bearing your burdens?
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ye | mighty knights |  |  |  | of prowess | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | ye *not said here* | wayfarers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | wayfarers *not said here* | your burdens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient |
| 4 | **burden** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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