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title: Do you go to the border of the blue sea, and stand in front of the g… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you go to the border of the blue sea, and stand in front of the grey oak: at the hour of midnight the blue sea will boil over and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, will come out to you: he has no hands, no feet, and he has a grey beard. Who acts: you, blue sea, sea. A sentence of «Russian Folk-
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 41

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Do you go to the border of the blue sea, and stand in front of the grey oak: at the hour of midnight the blue sea will boil over and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, will come out to you: he has no hands, no feet, and he has a grey beard.

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**Who acts:** you, blue sea, sea · **What happens:** go, stand, boil over, come out, have · **To what, where:** border, front, Chúdo, you, hands, grey beard

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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 (you, blue sea, sea), 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:pg62509:4:41
# text = Do you go to the border of the blue sea, and stand in front of the grey oak: at the hour of midnight the blue sea will boil over and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, will come out to you: he has no hands, no feet, and he has a grey beard.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Chúdo	Chúdo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Yúda	Yúda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
46	out	out	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
52	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	53	det	_	_
53	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	56	det	_	_
56	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · do-support | you |  |  | the border of the blue sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to border=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  | front of the grey oak |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 3 | **boil over** | future | the blue sea | Chúdo and Yúda and the Old Man of the Sea |  |  | hour | over *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come out** | future | the blue sea *not said here* |  | you |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | sea | no hands and no feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | sea | a grey beard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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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