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title: [36] The parents wanted to secure wives for them, and sent the eldes… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [36] The parents wanted to secure wives for them, and sent the eldest son out to seek a bride. Who acts: parents, 36. 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 32

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\[36\] The parents wanted to secure wives for them, and sent the eldest son out to seek a bride.

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**Who acts:** parents, 36 · **What happens:** want, secure, send, seek · **To what, where:** 36, wives, eldest son, bride

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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 (parents, 36), 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:pg62509:27:32
# text = [36] The parents wanted to secure wives for them, and sent the eldest son out to seek a bride.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the parents | 36 |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **secure** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | 36 *not said here* | wives |  |  |  | for parents *= parent* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition wife=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **send** | past | the parents *not said here* | the eldest son |  |  |  | out *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the parents *not said here* | a bride |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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