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title: The knights brought the merchant’s daughter to their _izbá_[60] in t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The knights brought the merchant’s daughter to their _izbá_[60] in the wood and said: “Stay with us as our sister, and become the mistress of the house. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 138

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The knights brought the merchant’s daughter to their \_izbá\_\[60\] in the wood and said: “Stay with us as our sister, and become the mistress of the house.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** bring, say, stay, become · **To what, where:** daughter, wood, mistress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (knights), 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:pg62509:38:139
# text = The knights brought the merchant’s daughter to their _izbá_[60] in the wood and said: “Stay with us as our sister, and become the mistress of the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	izbá	izbá	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the knights | the merchant's daughter |  | the wood |  | to merchant's izbá; 60 *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to izbá=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with us; as our sister | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the mistress of the house |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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