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title: “I see Túgarin bringing me the turbulent head of Alyósha Popóvich: h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I see Túgarin bringing me the turbulent head of Alyósha Popóvich: he will now take captive all of our Christian kingdom.” Who acts: Alyósha, Túgarin, ALYÓSHA. 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 74

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“I see Túgarin bringing me the turbulent head of Alyósha Popóvich: he will now take captive all of our Christian kingdom.”

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**Who acts:** Alyósha, Túgarin, ALYÓSHA · **What happens:** see, bring, take · **To what, where:** Túgarin, turbulent head, Alyósha, all

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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, Túgarin, ALYÓSHA), 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:pg62509:20:74
# text = “I see Túgarin bringing me the turbulent head of Alyósha Popóvich: he will now take captive all of our Christian kingdom.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Túgarin	Túgarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Alyósha | Túgarin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | gerund | Túgarin *not said here* | the turbulent head of Alyósha | Alyósha |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination head=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | future | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* | all of our Christian kingdom |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |

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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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