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title: “Will you, then, send in a report about me to the Lord?” the peasant… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you, then, send in a report about me to the Lord?” the peasant said, “what He wishes me to engage in?” Who acts: you, peasant. 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 130

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“Will you, then, send in a report about me to the Lord?” the peasant said, “what He wishes me to engage in?”

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**Who acts:** you, peasant · **What happens:** send, say, wish, engage in · **To what, where:** report, peasant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, peasant), 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:pg62509:3:130
# text = “Will you, then, send in a report about me to the Lord?” the peasant said, “what He wishes me to engage in?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  | a report about me | then | to the Lord | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in report=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the peasant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | peasant | the peasant *= peasant* |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **engage in** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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