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title: “Now, you fine potter, you have known how to sell your goods; _boyár… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, you fine potter, you have known how to sell your goods; _boyár_, take off your gay costume and your boots; and you, potter, take off your _kaftán_ and your bast shoes. Who acts: you, boyár. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 131

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“Now, you fine potter, you have known how to sell your goods; \_boyár\_, take off your gay costume and your boots; and you, potter, take off your \_kaftán\_ and your bast shoes.

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**Who acts:** you, boyár · **What happens:** potter, know, sell, take off · **To what, where:** fine potter, goods, gay costume, kaftán

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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 (you, boyár), 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:pg62509:22:131
# text = “Now, you fine potter, you have known how to sell your goods; _boyár_, take off your gay costume and your boots; and you, potter, take off your _kaftán_ and your bast shoes.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	boyár	boyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	costume	costume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	kaftán	kaftán	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	bast	bast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **potter** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | fine potter |  |  |  | you *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | your goods |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |
| 4 | **take off** *in a quote* | infinitive | boyár | your gay costume and your boots |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent costume=Theme |
| 5 | **take off** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | your kaftán |  |  |  | your bast shoes *conj* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaftán=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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