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title: Koshchéy the Deathless was not at home: “Let us start, Márya Moryévn… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Koshchéy the Deathless was not at home: “Let us start, Márya Moryévna.” Who acts: Koshchéy, us. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 128

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Koshchéy the Deathless was not at home: “Let us start, Márya Moryévna.”

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**Who acts:** Koshchéy, us · **What happens:** not be, let, start · **To what, where:** home, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Koshchéy, us), 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:pg62509:23:128
# text = Koshchéy the Deathless was not at home: “Let us start, Márya Moryévna.”
1	Koshchéy	Koshchéy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
15	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Koshchéy |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  | Márya *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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