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title: But Alyósha answered, “Hail, Marýshko Paránov, do you not sully the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Alyósha answered, “Hail, Marýshko Paránov, do you not sully the white stone palace; let him go into the open field wherever he may, and we will meet him to-morrow in the open field.” Who acts: Alyósha, you, ALYÓSHA, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, wit
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 54

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But Alyósha answered, “Hail, Marýshko Paránov, do you not sully the white stone palace; let him go into the open field wherever he may, and we will meet him to-morrow in the open field.”

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, you, ALYÓSHA, we · **What happens:** answer, not sully, not let, go, meet · **To what, where:** Hail, white stone palace, ALYÓSHA, open field · **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, you, ALYÓSHA, we), 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:pg62509:20:54
# text = But Alyósha answered, “Hail, Marýshko Paránov, do you not sully the white stone palace; let him go into the open field wherever he may, and we will meet him to-morrow in the open field.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Marýshko	Marýshko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Paránov	Paránov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	sully	sully	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 | Hail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sully** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the white stone palace |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* |  |  | the open field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | future | we | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  | the open field |  | to morrow | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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