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title: “Ha, let’s have a look, brother,” Elijah demurred. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ha, let’s have a look, brother,” Elijah demurred. Who acts: Elijah, ’s. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 33

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“Ha, let’s have a look, brother,” Elijah demurred.

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**Who acts:** Elijah, ’s · **What happens:** let, have, demur · **To what, where:** ’s, look · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elijah, ’s), 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:pg62509:26:33
# text = “Ha, let’s have a look, brother,” Elijah demurred.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	demurred	demur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Elijah *not said here* | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | ’s *not said here* | a look and brother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 3 | **demur** | past | Elijah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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