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title: Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, then said, “If this had been… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, then said, “If this had been my wife I should have taught her to obey!” Who acts: Alyósha. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 129

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Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, then said, “If this had been my wife I should have taught her to obey!”

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**Who acts:** Alyósha · **What happens:** say, teach, obey · **To what, where:** Alyósha, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha), 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:pg62509:4:129
# text = Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, then said, “If this had been my wife I should have taught her to obey!”
1	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Mocker	Mocker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Women	Women	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | should · participle · perfect · passive |  | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women *= alyósha* | wife |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **obey** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women *= alyósha* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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