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title: Put the peasant’s smock on, _boyár_, and you, potter, put on the _bo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Put the peasant’s smock on, _boyár_, and you, potter, put on the _boyár’s_ robes. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 132

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Put the peasant’s smock on, \_boyár\_, and you, potter, put on the \_boyár’s\_ robes.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put on, potter, put · **To what, where:** smock, potter, \_ robes

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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), 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:pg62509:22:132
# text = Put the peasant’s smock on, _boyár_, and you, potter, put on the _boyár’s_ robes.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	smock	smock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	boyár	boyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	boyár	boyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put on** | imperative | you *not said here* | the peasant's smock |  |  |  | boyár *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent smock=Goal |
| 2 | **potter** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  | potter *not said here* |  | the boyár's \_ robes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=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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