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title: “Forgive me, Márya Moryévna; let bygones be bygones: come away with… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Forgive me, Márya Moryévna; let bygones be bygones: come away with me now, whilst Koshchéy the Deathless is away: possibly he may not catch us up.” Who acts: you, bygones, Koshchéy. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 116

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“Forgive me, Márya Moryévna; let bygones be bygones: come away with me now, whilst Koshchéy the Deathless is away: possibly he may not catch us up.”

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**Who acts:** you, bygones, Koshchéy · **What happens:** forgive, let, be, come away, not catch up · **To what, where:** Crow, bygones, us

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bygones, Koshchéy), 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:pg62509:23:116
# text = “Forgive me, Márya Moryévna; let bygones be bygones: come away with me now, whilst Koshchéy the Deathless is away: possibly he may not catch us up.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	bygones	bygone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	bygones	bygone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Koshchéy	Koshchéy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forgive** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Crow *= crow* |  |  |  | Márya *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | bygones | bygones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | with the Crow *= crow*; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Koshchéy |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **catch up** *in a quote* | may | Koshchéy | us |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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