---
title: “I am Katomá, whose legs you once cut off and then set on a tree tru… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am Katomá, whose legs you once cut off and then set on a tree trunk.” Who acts: Anna, 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/65/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/) / 65

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 65

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“I am Katomá, whose legs you once cut off and then set on a tree trunk.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Anna, Katomá · **What happens:** be, cut off, set · **To what, where:** Katomá, tree trunk

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Anna, Katomá), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:39:65
# text = “I am Katomá, whose legs you once cut off and then set on a tree trunk.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Anna | Katomá and Katomá and Katomá's legs's legs |  |  |  | Katomá and Katomá and legs's legs's legs *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** *in a quote* | past | Katomá and Katomá and Katomá's legs's legs |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; once *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | infinitive | Katomá and Katomá and Katomá's legs's legs *not said here* |  |  | a tree trunk | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on trunk=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/64/)
- next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/66/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/)