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title: Katomá, seated by the tail, hailed the grooms and said, “Ho, you the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Katomá, seated by the tail, hailed the grooms and said, “Ho, you there! grooms and coachmen, take this carrion into the stable.” Who acts: Katomá. 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 67

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Katomá, seated by the tail, hailed the grooms and said, “Ho, you there! grooms and coachmen, take this carrion into the stable.”

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**Who acts:** Katomá · **What happens:** seat, hail, say, take · **To what, where:** Katomá, grooms, Ho, carrion, stable · **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 (Katomá), 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:pg62509:38:68
# text = Katomá, seated by the tail, hailed the grooms and said, “Ho, you there! grooms and coachmen, take this carrion into the stable.”
1	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	hailed	hail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
20	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	coachmen	coachman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	carrion	carrion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle |  | Katomá *not said here* |  |  |  | by the tail | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **hail** | past | Katomá | the grooms |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent groom=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Katomá *not said here* | Ho |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this carrion |  | the stable |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carrion=Theme into stable=Destination |

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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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