--- title: A _boyár_ rode up to the potter and said to him: “God be with you, p… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A _boyár_ rode up to the potter and said to him: “God be with you, potter.” Who acts: _ boyár, God. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/22/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/22/) / 100 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 100 A \_boyár\_ rode up to the potter and said to him: “God be with you, potter.” **Who acts:** \_ boyár, God · **What happens:** ride up, say, be · **To what, where:** potter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ boyár, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:22:100 # text = A _boyár_ rode up to the potter and said to him: “God be with you, potter.” 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 _ _ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 boyár boyár NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ _ 5 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 potter potter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 potter potter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride up** | past | a \_ boyár | | | the potter | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to potter=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a \_ boyár *not said here* | potter | POTTER | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | | | | | with POTTER | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/22/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/22/101/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/22/)