--- title: Three times you took up your gun to shoot me, but I asked you to spa… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Three times you took up your gun to shoot me, but I asked you to spare me; and I was thinking in my mind, may you not destroy me but have pity and take me to yourself!” Who acts: you, I, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/64/) [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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/) / 64 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 64 Three times you took up your gun to shoot me, but I asked you to spare me; and I was thinking in my mind, may you not destroy me but have pity and take me to yourself!” **Who acts:** you, I, my · **What happens:** take up, shoot, ask, spare, think, not destroy · **To what, where:** gun, me, you, mind, pity, yourself This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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:pg62509:29:64 # text = Three times you took up your gun to shoot me, but I asked you to spare me; and I was thinking in my mind, may you not destroy me but have pity and take me to yourself!” 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** | past | you | your gun | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | | 2 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **spare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I | | | my mind | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **destroy** | may | you | me | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 7 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | pity | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | | 8 | **not** **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me | yourself | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to yourself=Destination | | 9 | **mind** | | my | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/65/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/)