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title: “Oh, I am going to light the rouble taper to the Prophet Elijah; he… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, I am going to light the rouble taper to the Prophet Elijah; he has been so charitable to me. Who acts: Nicholas. 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 93

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“Oh, I am going to light the rouble taper to the Prophet Elijah; he has been so charitable to me.

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**Who acts:** Nicholas · **What happens:** go, light, be · **To what, where:** rouble taper, Nicholas

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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 (Nicholas), 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:pg62509:26:93
# text = “Oh, I am going to light the rouble taper to the Prophet Elijah; he has been so charitable to me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rouble	rouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	taper	taper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	charitable	charitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Nicholas  St. *= nicholas* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **light** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nicholas  St. *= nicholas* *not said here* | the rouble taper |  |  |  | to the Prophet Elijah | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Product |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | NICHOLAS |  | Nicholas  St. *= nicholas* |  |  | charitable *property* | 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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