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description: Then they cried out to their husbands, “Masters, do ye go and meet that man and slay him for the slaying of our father, lest our name be disgraced.” Who acts: sisters, Masters, our. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 87

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Then they cried out to their husbands, “Masters, do ye go and meet that man and slay him for the slaying of our father, lest our name be disgraced.”

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**Who acts:** sisters, Masters, our · **What happens:** cry out, go, meet, slay, disgrace, name · **To what, where:** husbands, man, name, father · **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 (sisters, Masters, our), 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:pg62509:31:87
# text = Then they cried out to their husbands, “Masters, do ye go and meet that man and slay him for the slaying of our father, lest our name be disgraced.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Masters	Master	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	slaying	slaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	disgraced	disgrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | sisters *= sister* |  | sisters's husbands |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Masters |  |  |  |  | ye *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | infinitive | Masters *not said here* | that man |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Masters *not said here* | man |  |  |  | for the slaying of our father | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **disgrace** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | our name |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **slay** *in a quote* |  |  | our father |  |  |  |  | nom slaying «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **name** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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