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title: “Oh, mother, the giant Ídolishche sent me to ask you to lend me your… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, mother, the giant Ídolishche sent me to ask you to lend me your mighty eagle to carry me to Russia.” Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 104

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“Oh, mother, the giant Ídolishche sent me to ask you to lend me your mighty eagle to carry me to Russia.”

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** send, ask, lend, carry · **To what, where:** Bába Yagá, you, mighty eagle, Russia

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg62509:27:104
# text = “Oh, mother, the giant Ídolishche sent me to ask you to lend me your mighty eagle to carry me to Russia.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Ídolishche	Ídolishche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | past | mother | the Bába Yagá *= yagá* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lend** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | your mighty eagle | the Bába Yagá *= yagá* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient eagle=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | the Bába Yagá *= yagá* | Russia |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to russia=Destination |

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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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