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title: If Túgarin is coming on earth and is not flying in the skies he is p… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If Túgarin is coming on earth and is not flying in the skies he is putting his turbulent head on my steel lance. Who acts: Túgarin. 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 76

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If Túgarin is coming on earth and is not flying in the skies he is putting his turbulent head on my steel lance.

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**Who acts:** Túgarin · **What happens:** come, not fly, put · **To what, where:** earth, skies, turbulent head, steel lance

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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 (Túgarin), 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:pg62509:20:76
# text = If Túgarin is coming on earth and is not flying in the skies he is putting his turbulent head on my steel lance.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Túgarin	Túgarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | Túgarin |  |  | earth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 2 | **not** **fly** | present · progressive | Túgarin *not said here* |  |  | the skies |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
| 3 | **put** | present · progressive | Túgarin | Túgarin's turbulent head |  | my steel lance |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lance=Destination |

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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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