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title: And Angéy went up to his city, and he saw shepherds feeding oxen, an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Angéy went up to his city, and he saw shepherds feeding oxen, and he asked them: “Ye lesser brothers, shepherds, where have ye seen my horse and my garments?” Who acts: Angéy, shepherds, Ye. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 58

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And Angéy went up to his city, and he saw shepherds feeding oxen, and he asked them: “Ye lesser brothers, shepherds, where have ye seen my horse and my garments?”

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**Who acts:** Angéy, shepherds, Ye · **What happens:** go up, see, feed, ask, brother · **To what, where:** shepherds, oxen, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Angéy, shepherds, Ye), 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:pg62509:25:59
# text = And Angéy went up to his city, and he saw shepherds feeding oxen, and he asked them: “Ye lesser brothers, shepherds, where have ye seen my horse and my garments?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Angéy	Angéy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Angéy |  |  |  |  | to Angéy's city | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | past | Angéy | shepherds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund | shepherds *not said here* | oxen |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Recipient |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Angéy |  | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **brother** *in a quote* |  | Ye |  |  |  |  | shepherds *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | ye | my horse |  |  |  | my garments *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |

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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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