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title: The blind man lifted Katomá up, and the legless man cried out, “Left… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The blind man lifted Katomá up, and the legless man cried out, “Left; right; straight on!” Who acts: blind man, legless man. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 126

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The blind man lifted Katomá up, and the legless man cried out, “Left; right; straight on!”

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**Who acts:** blind man, legless man · **What happens:** lift, cry out · **To what, where:** Katomá

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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 (blind man, legless man), 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:pg62509:38:127
# text = The blind man lifted Katomá up, and the legless man cried out, “Left; right; straight on!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	legless	legless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the blind man | Katomá |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent katomá=Theme |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the legless man |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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