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title: So Alyósha Popóvich answered, “I am the son of the old prebendary Le… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Alyósha Popóvich answered, “I am the son of the old prebendary León, his young son Alyósha Popóvich, and my comrade and servant is Marýshko, the son of Parán.” Who acts: Alyósha, comrade. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 40

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So Alyósha Popóvich answered, “I am the son of the old prebendary León, his young son Alyósha Popóvich, and my comrade and servant is Marýshko, the son of Parán.”

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, comrade · **What happens:** answer, be · **To what, where:** son, Marýshko · **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 (Alyósha, comrade), 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:pg62509:20:40
# text = So Alyósha Popóvich answered, “I am the son of the old prebendary León, his young son Alyósha Popóvich, and my comrade and servant is Marýshko, the son of Parán.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prebendary	prebendary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	León	León	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	Marýshko	Marýshko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Parán	Parán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Alyósha |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Alyósha | the son |  |  |  | of the old prebendary and ALYÓSHA's young son | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my comrade and servant | Marýshko |  |  |  | the son of Parán *appos* | tree rules |

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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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