--- title: So the merchant agreed at once, summoned his son and said, “Now, my… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the merchant agreed at once, summoned his son and said, “Now, my son, I want to cut the throat of your horse: your mother is ill, and I must cure her.” Who acts: merchant, mother. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/73/) [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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/) / 73 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 73 So the merchant agreed at once, summoned his son and said, “Now, my son, I want to cut the throat of your horse: your mother is ill, and I must cure her.” **Who acts:** merchant, mother · **What happens:** agree, summon, say, want, cut, be · **To what, where:** son, throat, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (merchant, mother), 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:pg62509:28:73 # text = So the merchant agreed at once, summoned his son and said, “Now, my son, I want to cut the throat of your horse: your mother is ill, and I must cure her.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the merchant | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **summon** | past | the merchant *not said here* | | merchant's son | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the merchant *not said here* | | | | | my son *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the merchant *= merchant* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **cut** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the merchant *= merchant* *not said here* | the throat of your horse | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product | | 6 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present | your mother | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **cure** *in a quote* | must | the merchant *= merchant* | mother | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/)