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title: “O Vasilísa the Wise, I am afflicted for my father and my mother, an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “O Vasilísa the Wise, I am afflicted for my father and my mother, and desire to behold Holy Russia.” Who acts: desire. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 79

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“O Vasilísa the Wise, I am afflicted for my father and my mother, and desire to behold Holy Russia.”

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** afflict, behold · **To what, where:** Vasilísa, Holy Russia

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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 (desire), 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:pg62509:30:79
# text = “O Vasilísa the Wise, I am afflicted for my father and my mother, and desire to behold Holy Russia.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wise	Wise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	22	compound	_	_
22	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afflict** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Vasilísa |  |  |  | for my father and my mother; I *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **behold** *in a quote* | infinitive | desire | Holy Russia |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer russia=Stimulus |

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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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