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description: Koshchéy asked Iván Tsarévich, “Have pity on me: give me something to eat. Who acts: Koshchéy. 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 82

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Koshchéy asked Iván Tsarévich, “Have pity on me: give me something to eat.

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**Who acts:** Koshchéy · **What happens:** ask, have, give, eat · **To what, where:** Iván, pity, something, Koshchéy · **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), 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:pg62509:23:82
# text = Koshchéy asked Iván Tsarévich, “Have pity on me: give me something to eat.
1	Koshchéy	Koshchéy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Koshchéy |  | Iván |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | pity |  |  |  | on Koshchéy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | something | Koshchéy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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