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title: And they told the peasant, “Now you must keep and feed the dog, for… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they told the peasant, “Now you must keep and feed the dog, for he saved my child from the bear; and you were saying he had no strength!” Who acts: BEAR, 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 74

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And they told the peasant, “Now you must keep and feed the dog, for he saved my child from the bear; and you were saying he had no strength!”

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**Who acts:** BEAR, peasant · **What happens:** tell, keep, feed, save, say, have · **To what, where:** peasant, dog, child, bear, strength · **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 (BEAR, 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:pg62509:3:74
# text = And they told the peasant, “Now you must keep and feed the dog, for he saved my child from the bear; and you were saying he had no strength!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | BEAR |  | the peasant |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | must | the peasant *= peasant* |  |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feed** *in a quote* | infinitive | the peasant *= peasant* *not said here* |  | the dog |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |
| 4 | **save** *in a quote* | past | peasant | my child |  | the bear |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from bear=Source |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · progressive | the peasant *= peasant* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | peasant | no strength |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |

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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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