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title: When you get up to-morrow morning, stand at the gates and buy the fi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When you get up to-morrow morning, stand at the gates and buy the first thing that meets you and give it to me.” Who acts: you, first thing. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 24

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When you get up to-morrow morning, stand at the gates and buy the first thing that meets you and give it to me.”

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**Who acts:** you, first thing · **What happens:** get up, stand, buy, meet, give · **To what, where:** gates, first thing, you, thing, me

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, first thing), 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:pg62509:28:24
# text = When you get up to-morrow morning, stand at the gates and buy the first thing that meets you and give it to me.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | present | you |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the gates |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location |
| 3 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the first thing |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | present | the first thing | you |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thing | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient |

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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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