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title: Ho’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), A… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ho’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare By the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. Who acts: three locks. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 139

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Ho’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare By the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie.

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**Who acts:** three locks · **What happens:** string · **To what, where:** wi

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three locks), 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:pg62509:39:139
# text = Ho’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare By the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie.
1	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	ta’en	ta'en	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
6	o	o	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	strung	string	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	sae	sae	ADV	FW	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
27	By	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
30	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **string** | past | Ho's three locks  Binnorie's yellow hair | wi |  |  |  | locks *= lock* *nsubj*; Filyushka's harp *obj*; rare *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent harp=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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