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title: So he called Katomá, and he told him to bring the iron column into t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he called Katomá, and he told him to bring the iron column into the kitchen and to hew it into small logs as fuel for the cook. Who acts: servant. 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 45

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So he called Katomá, and he told him to bring the iron column into the kitchen and to hew it into small logs as fuel for the cook.

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**Who acts:** servant · **What happens:** call, tell, bring, hew · **To what, where:** Katomá, iron column, kitchen, column, small logs · **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 (servant), 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:pg62509:38:46
# text = So he called Katomá, and he told him to bring the iron column into the kitchen and to hew it into small logs as fuel for the cook.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hew	hew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | servant |  | Katomá |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent katomá=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | servant |  | Katomá |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | servant *not said here* | the iron column |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent column=Theme into kitchen=Destination |
| 4 | **hew** | to-infinitive | servant *not said here* | column |  |  |  | into small logs *result*; as fuel for the cook | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into log=Result |

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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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