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title: “Your Imperial Majesty, we could not find the shepherd with the litt… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your Imperial Majesty, we could not find the shepherd with the little lamb: the only thing we saw on the road was a church and an old man as pope.” Who acts: Imperial Majesty, we, only thing. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 118

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“Your Imperial Majesty, we could not find the shepherd with the little lamb: the only thing we saw on the road was a church and an old man as pope.”

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**Who acts:** Imperial Majesty, we, only thing · **What happens:** not find, see, be · **To what, where:** shepherd, only thing, road, church

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty, we, only thing), 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:pg62509:30:118
# text = “Your Imperial Majesty, we could not find the shepherd with the little lamb: the only thing we saw on the road was a church and an old man as pope.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | could | Your Imperial Majesty | the shepherd |  |  |  | with the little lamb; we *nsubj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | we | the only thing *not said here* |  | the road |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the only thing | a church and a old man |  |  |  | as pope; a old man *conj* | tree rules |

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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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