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title: The horse was so tired that it could not resist him any more, but sp… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The horse was so tired that it could not resist him any more, but spoke in a human voice: “Father Katomá, leave me some life, and I will come down to earth and whatever you will I will do.” Who acts: horse, I, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dep
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 59

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The horse was so tired that it could not resist him any more, but spoke in a human voice: “Father Katomá, leave me some life, and I will come down to earth and whatever you will I will do.”

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**Who acts:** horse, I, you · **What happens:** be, not resist, speak, leave, come down, do · **To what, where:** sheet, human voice, me, earth, whatever · **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 (horse, I, you), 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:pg62509:38:60
# text = The horse was so tired that it could not resist him any more, but spoke in a human voice: “Father Katomá, leave me some life, and I will come down to earth and whatever you will I will do.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	any	any	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	vocative	_	_
24	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **resist** | could | horse | sheet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | a human voice |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | Father *vocative*; some life *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme life=Attribute |
| 5 | **come down** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  | earth |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | future | you | whatever |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |

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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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