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title: “Do not ask me, my brothers; just buckle my wallet firmly on, and do… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do not ask me, my brothers; just buckle my wallet firmly on, and do not think evil of me.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 114

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“Do not ask me, my brothers; just buckle my wallet firmly on, and do not think evil of me.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not ask, not buckle, not think · **To what, where:** comrades, wallet, evil

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:24:114
# text = “Do not ask me, my brothers; just buckle my wallet firmly on, and do not think evil of me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	buckle	buckle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  | soldier's comrades *= comrade* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **buckle** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my wallet |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | evil of me |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=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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