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title: And from there I went straight and I took the mighty Nightingale Rob… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And from there I went straight and I took the mighty Nightingale Robber alive and dragged him along at my steel stirrup.” Who acts: I. 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 99

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And from there I went straight and I took the mighty Nightingale Robber alive and dragged him along at my steel stirrup.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, take, drag · **To what, where:** mighty Nightingale, Nightingale, steel stirrup

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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 (I), 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:pg62509:31:99
# text = And from there I went straight and I took the mighty Nightingale Robber alive and dragged him along at my steel stirrup.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	along	along	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from there=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | I |  | the mighty Nightingale |  |  | alive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nightingale=Destination |
| 3 | **drag** | past | I *not said here* | Nightingale |  | my steel stirrup |  | along *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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