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title: Prince Vladímir has given me eighty score of sable skins, of which I… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Vladímir has given me eighty score of sable skins, of which I am to make a _shúba_ in the morning. Who acts: Vladímir, I. 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 35

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Prince Vladímir has given me eighty score of sable skins, of which I am to make a \_shúba\_ in the morning.

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**Who acts:** Vladímir, I · **What happens:** give, be, score · **To what, where:** eighty score, me, sable skins

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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 (Vladímir, I), 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:pg62509:4:35
# text = Prince Vladímir has given me eighty score of sable skins, of which I am to make a _shúba_ in the morning.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sable	sable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	shúba	shúba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | Vladímir  Prince | eighty score of sable skins | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient score=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; a shúba *obj*; make *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **score** |  |  | sable skins |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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