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title: “I have a kerchief: if you shake it to the right three times a lofty… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have a kerchief: if you shake it to the right three times a lofty bridge rises and the fires cannot overreach it.” Who acts: Koshchéy, you, lofty bridge, fires. 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 32

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“I have a kerchief: if you shake it to the right three times a lofty bridge rises and the fires cannot overreach it.”

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**Who acts:** Koshchéy, you, lofty bridge, fires · **What happens:** have, shake, rise, not overreach · **To what, where:** kerchief, right three times, bridge

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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 (Koshchéy, you, lofty bridge, fires), 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:pg62509:24:32
# text = “I have a kerchief: if you shake it to the right three times a lofty bridge rises and the fires cannot overreach it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	overreach	overreach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Koshchéy | a kerchief |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient |
| 2 | **shake** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | kerchief |  |  | time |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | a lofty bridge | the right three times *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **overreach** *in a quote* | can | the fires | bridge |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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