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title: “Oh,” he said, “I will tear off and bring this to my beloved daughte… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh,” he said, “I will tear off and bring this to my beloved daughter: evidently there is nobody here to watch me.” Who acts: merchant, nobody. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 130

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“Oh,” he said, “I will tear off and bring this to my beloved daughter: evidently there is nobody here to watch me.”

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**Who acts:** merchant, nobody · **What happens:** say, tear off, bring, be, watch · **To what, where:** this, beloved daughter, merchant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, nobody), 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:pg62509:33:130
# text = “Oh,” he said, “I will tear off and bring this to my beloved daughter: evidently there is nobody here to watch me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tear off** *in a quote* | future | merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | merchant *not said here* | this | my beloved daughter |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to daughter=Destination |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nobody |  |  | here; there |  | evidently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | merchant |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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