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title: “Herd, put on my clothes; I will put on yours and will drive the cow… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Herd, put on my clothes; I will put on yours and will drive the cows home.” Who acts: you, Katomá. 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 47

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“Herd, put on my clothes; I will put on yours and will drive the cows home.”

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**Who acts:** you, Katomá · **What happens:** put, drive · **To what, where:** Herd, clothes, cows

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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 (you, 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:pg62509:39:47
# text = “Herd, put on my clothes; I will put on yours and will drive the cows home.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Herd |  | my clothes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | future | Katomá |  |  |  |  | on yours | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on your=Destination |
| 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* | the cows |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |

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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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