--- title: “There you are, Elijah,” said St. Nicholas: “you said I gave everyth… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “There you are, Elijah,” said St. Nicholas: “you said I gave everything away to the peasant; now you see what the truth is.” Who acts: you, Nicholas, truth. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/97/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/) / 97 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 97 “There you are, Elijah,” said St. Nicholas: “you said I gave everything away to the peasant; now you see what the truth is.” **Who acts:** you, Nicholas, truth · **What happens:** be, say, give away, see · **To what, where:** everything, peasant · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Nicholas, truth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:26:97 # text = “There you are, Elijah,” said St. Nicholas: “you said I gave everything away to the peasant; now you see what the truth is.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:desc _ _ 11 Nicholas Nicholas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 18 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 obj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 obj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nicholas St. | | | | | Elijah *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **give away** *in a quote* | past | Nicholas St. *= nicholas* | everything | the peasant | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to peasant=Recipient | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the truth | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/98/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/)