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title: Carry me at once into the capital and give me a pile of money; you k… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Carry me at once into the capital and give me a pile of money; you know yourself how little of these goods a soldier ever gets.” Who acts: you, soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 11

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Carry me at once into the capital and give me a pile of money; you know yourself how little of these goods a soldier ever gets.”

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**Who acts:** you, soldier · **What happens:** carry, give, know, get · **To what, where:** me, capital, pile, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, soldier), 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:pg62509:37:11
# text = Carry me at once into the capital and give me a pile of money; you know yourself how little of these goods a soldier ever gets.”
1	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
27	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | the capital |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a pile of money | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pile=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | a soldier |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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