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description: I loved you and your father, Iván, and you even more, because you kindly gave me alms; and now you are rich and famous, do not forget to give alms to the poor.” Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 53

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I loved you and your father, Iván, and you even more, because you kindly gave me alms; and now you are rich and famous, do not forget to give alms to the poor.”

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** love, give, be, not forget · **To what, where:** you, alms, me, poor

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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 (I, 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:pg62509:22:53
# text = I loved you and your father, Iván, and you even more, because you kindly gave me alms; and now you are rich and famous, do not forget to give alms to the poor.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | you | alms | me |  |  | kindly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient alm=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | now | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **forget** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | alms | the poor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to poor=Recipient |

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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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