--- title: “Sit down, brother mine; play on the harp whilst I go and prepare di… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Sit down, brother mine; play on the harp whilst I go and prepare dinner.” Who acts: you, time. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/) / 17 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 17 “Sit down, brother mine; play on the harp whilst I go and prepare dinner.” **Who acts:** you, time · **What happens:** sit down, play, go, prepare · **To what, where:** brother, harp, dinner 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, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:23:17 # text = “Sit down, brother mine; play on the harp whilst I go and prepare dinner.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 prepare prepare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | brother mine | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | the harp | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | this time *= time* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **prepare** *in a quote* | present | this time *= time* *not said here* | dinner | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/18/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/)