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title: Then at last Chúdo-Yúda asked him: “Why do you beat me, Danílo the U… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then at last Chúdo-Yúda asked him: “Why do you beat me, Danílo the Unfortunate?” Who acts: last Chúdo Yúda, sea. 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 47

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Then at last Chúdo-Yúda asked him: “Why do you beat me, Danílo the Unfortunate?”

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**Who acts:** last Chúdo Yúda, sea · **What happens:** ask, beat · **To what, where:** sea, last Chúdo Yúda · **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 (last Chúdo Yúda, 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:pg62509:4:47
# text = Then at last Chúdo-Yúda asked him: “Why do you beat me, Danílo the Unfortunate?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Chúdo	Chúdo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Yúda	Yúda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | last Chúdo Yúda |  | sea |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beat** *in a quote* | present · do-support | sea | last Chúdo Yúda *= yúda* |  |  |  | Danílo *vocative*; the Unfortunate *obl:unmarked* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=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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