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title: “I am the blind knight, and for three years I have lived in the wood… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am the blind knight, and for three years I have lived in the wood, feeding myself on the animals I can catch and bake on my fire; otherwise I should have died of hunger.” Who acts: Katomá, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 120

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“I am the blind knight, and for three years I have lived in the wood, feeding myself on the animals I can catch and bake on my fire; otherwise I should have died of hunger.”

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**Who acts:** Katomá, my · **What happens:** be, live, feed, catch, bake, die · **To what, where:** blind knight, wood, Katomá, animals

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katomá, my), 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:pg62509:38:121
# text = “I am the blind knight, and for three years I have lived in the wood, feeding myself on the animals I can catch and bake on my fire; otherwise I should have died of hunger.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	iobj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Katomá | the blind knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Katomá |  |  | the wood | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 3 | **feed** *in a quote* | gerund | Katomá *not said here* |  | Katomá |  |  | on the animals | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | can | Katomá | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 5 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive | Katomá *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on my fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on fire=Instrument |
| 6 | **die** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Katomá | the blind knight *not said here* |  |  |  | of hunger; otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **fire** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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