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title: Good-bye, brother Dog, I will go home to die.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Good-bye, brother Dog, I will go home to die.” Who acts: Good brother Dog. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 118

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Good-bye, brother Dog, I will go home to die.”

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**Who acts:** Good brother Dog · **What happens:** go, die

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good brother Dog), 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:pg62509:3:118
# text = Good-bye, brother Dog, I will go home to die.”
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | Good brother Dog |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | to-infinitive | Good brother Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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