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title: Ask your father that you may go out on my back for the last time to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask your father that you may go out on my back for the last time to fare in the open fields with your companions.” Who acts: you. 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 77

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Ask your father that you may go out on my back for the last time to fare in the open fields with your companions.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, go out, fare · **To what, where:** father, back, open fields · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg62509:28:77
# text = Ask your father that you may go out on my back for the last time to fare in the open fields with your companions.”
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your father |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go out** | may | you |  |  | my back | time | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fare** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the open fields |  | with your companions | tree rules |

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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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