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title: Then he said: “Now, my well-doer, Ivánushka, you are to be a mighty… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 50

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Then he said: “Now, my well-doer, Ivánushka, you are to be a mighty king; Iván, the merchant’s son, you are now rich and famous and happy, so see to it that you do not forget God and the poor.

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**Who acts:** tale, you, doer · **What happens:** say, be, see, not forget · **To what, where:** mighty king, doer, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tale, you, doer), 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:pg62509:22:50
# text = Then he said: “Now, my well-doer, Ivánushka, you are to be a mighty king; Iván, the merchant’s son, you are now rich and famous and happy, so see to it that you do not forget God and the poor.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	doer	doer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Ivánushka	Ivánushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
48	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | tale |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a mighty king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my doer and a mighty king and the merchant's son |  |  |  | now | you *nsubj*; rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | my doer and a mighty king and the merchant's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | my doer and a mighty king and the merchant's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | tale *not said here* |  | doer |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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