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title: Geese and swans, geese and swans, Waft me away on your pinions: Take… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Geese and swans, geese and swans, Waft me away on your pinions: Take me home to my mother and father; With my mother and my father There is plenty to eat And life is sweet! Who acts: Geese, plenty, life. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tre
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 165

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Geese and swans, geese and swans, Waft me away on your pinions: Take me home to my mother and father; With my mother and my father There is plenty to eat And life is sweet!

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**Who acts:** Geese, plenty, life · **What happens:** waft, take, be, eat · **To what, where:** me, mother

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geese, plenty, life), 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:pg62509:36:165
# text = Geese and swans, geese and swans, Waft me away on your pinions: Take me home to my mother and father; With my mother and my father There is plenty to eat And life is sweet!
1	Geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Waft	waft	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
25	With	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waft** | infinitive | Geese and swans and geese and swans | me |  |  |  | away *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Geese and swans and geese and swans *not said here* | me | my mother and father |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to mother=Destination |
| 3 | **be** | present | plenty |  |  | there |  | with my mother and my father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | sweet *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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