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title: “Do not grieve, _bátyushka_,” said the youngest daughter, “it is God… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do not grieve, _bátyushka_,” said the youngest daughter, “it is God’s gift: perhaps I shall fare well. Who acts: youngest daughter, blossom. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 8

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“Do not grieve, \_bátyushka\_,” said the youngest daughter, “it is God’s gift: perhaps I shall fare well.

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**Who acts:** youngest daughter, blossom · **What happens:** not grieve, say, be, fare · **To what, where:** bátyushka, gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. 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, blossom), 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:pg62509:34:8
# text = “Do not grieve, _bátyushka_,” said the youngest daughter, “it is God’s gift: perhaps I shall fare well.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bátyushka	bátyushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grieve** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | bátyushka |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bátyushka=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the youngest daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | blossom | God's gift |  |  |  | God *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fare** *in a quote* | shall | the youngest daughter *= daughter* |  |  |  |  | perhaps, well *property* | tree rules |

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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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