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title: Leave us alive; for robbers some time ago took away all we had, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave us alive; for robbers some time ago took away all we had, and now we only carry bricks, such bricks as we made on the island.” Who acts: you, robbers, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 82

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Leave us alive; for robbers some time ago took away all we had, and now we only carry bricks, such bricks as we made on the island.”

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**Who acts:** you, robbers, we · **What happens:** leave, take away, have, carry, make · **To what, where:** us, bricks, island

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, robbers, 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:pg62509:21:82
# text = Leave us alive; for robbers some time ago took away all we had, and now we only carry bricks, such bricks as we made on the island.”
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | past | robbers |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | we |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry** | present | we | bricks and such bricks |  |  | now |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | we |  |  | the island |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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