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title: “Ye, my masters, my mother and father, let me go into the famous cit… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ye, my masters, my mother and father, let me go into the famous city of Kíev, to pray to God and to do homage to our prince at Kíev.” Who acts: you, Ye. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 56

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“Ye, my masters, my mother and father, let me go into the famous city of Kíev, to pray to God and to do homage to our prince at Kíev.”

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**Who acts:** you, Ye · **What happens:** let, go, pray, do · **To what, where:** Ye, famous city, God, homage, Kíev

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ye), 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:pg62509:31:56
# text = “Ye, my masters, my mother and father, let me go into the famous city of Kíev, to pray to God and to do homage to our prince at Kíev.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Ye  my masters  my mother and father |  |  |  | me *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ye  my masters  my mother and father *not said here* |  |  | the famous city of Kíev |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | homage |  | Kíev |  | to our prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |

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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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