--- title: “Oh, father, I have lived so many years with you, I have so often wa… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, father, I have lived so many years with you, I have so often walked in the garden, and I have never seen such a delightful bird as I saw there just now!” Who acts: King. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg62509:29:18 # text = “Oh, father, I have lived so many years with you, I have so often walked in the garden, and I have never seen such a delightful bird as I saw there just now!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 29 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 32 det:predet _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 37 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the King *= king* | | | | year | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | participle | the King *= king* *not said here* | | | the garden | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the King *= king* | such delightful bird | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the King *= king* | | | there | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/19/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/)