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title: Then the king said: “If one of you will read some psalms for three n… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king said: “If one of you will read some psalms for three nights to my daughter who is now in the church, you may keep the ship.” Who acts: king, one, daughter, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 99

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Then the king said: “If one of you will read some psalms for three nights to my daughter who is now in the church, you may keep the ship.”

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**Who acts:** king, one, daughter, you · **What happens:** say, read, be, keep · **To what, where:** psalms, daughter, church, ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, one, daughter, you), 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:pg62509:21:99
# text = Then the king said: “If one of you will read some psalms for three nights to my daughter who is now in the church, you may keep the ship.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	psalms	psalm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **read** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | one of you | some psalms | my daughter |  | night |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic to daughter=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my daughter |  |  | the church | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | may | you | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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