--- title: And they spake in this wise: “Do you go straight to the city of Kíev… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And they spake in this wise: “Do you go straight to the city of Kíev, straight to the city of Chernígov, and on your journeying do no one any hurt, spill no Christian blood vainly.” Who acts: mother, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/) / 58 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 58 And they spake in this wise: “Do you go straight to the city of Kíev, straight to the city of Chernígov, and on your journeying do no one any hurt, spill no Christian blood vainly.” **Who acts:** mother, you · **What happens:** speak, go, journey, spill · **To what, where:** wise, city, Christian blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mother, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:31:58 # text = And they spake in this wise: “Do you go straight to the city of Kíev, straight to the city of Chernígov, and on your journeying do no one any hurt, spill no Christian blood vainly.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spake speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Kíev Kíev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 straight straight ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Chernígov Chernígov PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 29 journeying journey VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 spill spill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 38 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 vainly vainly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | mother | | | wise this | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | the city of Kíev | | to the city of Chernígov; on your one any hurt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location to city=Destination | | 3 | **journey** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spill** *in a quote* | present | | no Christian blood | | | | vainly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/)