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title: The youngest daughter saw him, and cried out to her sisters: “Here i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest daughter saw him, and cried out to her sisters: “Here is our father coming back with booty: he is bringing us a man tied to his steel stirrup.” Who acts: youngest daughter, father, Nightingale. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 85

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The youngest daughter saw him, and cried out to her sisters: “Here is our father coming back with booty: he is bringing us a man tied to his steel stirrup.”

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**Who acts:** youngest daughter, father, Nightingale · **What happens:** see, cry out, come back, bring, tie · **To what, where:** Nightingale, sisters, man, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (youngest daughter, father, Nightingale), 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:pg62509:31:85
# text = The youngest daughter saw him, and cried out to her sisters: “Here is our father coming back with booty: he is bringing us a man tied to his steel stirrup.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the youngest daughter | Nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the youngest daughter *not said here* |  | Kíev's sisters |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient |
| 3 | **come back** *in a quote* | present · progressive | our father |  |  | here |  | with booty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Nightingale | a man | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination man=Theme |
| 5 | **tie** *in a quote* | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | to Nightingale's steel stirrup | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to stirrup=Co-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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