--- title: But you, good youth, go to the herd, buy a bull and cut its throat;… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But you, good youth, go to the herd, buy a bull and cut its throat; dress yourself in the bull’s hide, put a bladder on your head, and wherever you go, whatever you are asked about, answer only this one word, ‘Idonotknow.’” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/85/) [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/) / 85 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 85 But you, good youth, go to the herd, buy a bull and cut its throat; dress yourself in the bull’s hide, put a bladder on your head, and wherever you go, whatever you are asked about, answer only this one word, ‘Idonotknow.’” **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, buy, cut, dress, put, ask · **To what, where:** herd, bull, throat, yourself, hide, bladder 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:28:85 # text = But you, good youth, go to the herd, buy a bull and cut its throat; dress yourself in the bull’s hide, put a bladder on your head, and wherever you go, whatever you are asked about, answer only this one word, ‘Idonotknow.’” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 dress dress VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’s 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bladder bladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 conj _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 about about ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 answer answer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 det _ _ 49 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 50 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 Idonotknow Idonotknow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | infinitive | you | | | the herd | | good youth *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to herd=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a bull | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | past | you *not said here* | youth's throat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product | | 4 | **dress** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself | | the bull's hide | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | | 5 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a bladder | | your head | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme on head=Destination | | 6 | **go** | present | you | | | | | whatever *conj*; wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | you | | | | about *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | this one word | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/86/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/)