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description: Go back home and ask your father to give you his best horse; mount that and ride away and follow your eyes if you would escape misfortune.” Who acts: you, mount. 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 144

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Go back home and ask your father to give you his best horse; mount that and ride away and follow your eyes if you would escape misfortune.”

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**Who acts:** you, mount · **What happens:** go back, ask, give, ride away, follow, escape · **To what, where:** father, best horse, you, eyes, misfortune

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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, mount), 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:pg62509:22:144
# text = Go back home and ask your father to give you his best horse; mount that and ride away and follow your eyes if you would escape misfortune.”
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mount *parataxis*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | your father |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Father's best horse | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 4 | **ride away** | infinitive | mount |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | infinitive | mount *not said here* | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 6 | **escape** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | misfortune |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme misfortune=Initial\_Location |

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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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