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title: Up the peasant dashed to the pope: “Oh, _bátyushka_, won’t you buy a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Up the peasant dashed to the pope: “Oh, _bátyushka_, won’t you buy all my standing corn? Who acts: you. 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 38

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Up the peasant dashed to the pope: “Oh, \_bátyushka\_, won’t you buy all my standing corn?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** dash, buy · **To what, where:** pope, standing corn

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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 (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:pg62509:26:38
# text = Up the peasant dashed to the pope: “Oh, _bátyushka_, won’t you buy all my standing corn?
1	Up	up	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bátyushka	bátyushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past |  |  |  | the pope |  | up the peasant | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pope=Destination |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | future | you | my standing corn |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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