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title: “Thou, oh evil witch of Kíev, bid thy crow fly over the sea of Khval… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thou, oh evil witch of Kíev, bid thy crow fly over the sea of Khvalýnsk, to the house of bronze; bid him peck the fiery snake, bid him gain the seven _pud_ key. Who acts: Thou, evil witch. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 45

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“Thou, oh evil witch of Kíev, bid thy crow fly over the sea of Khvalýnsk, to the house of bronze; bid him peck the fiery snake, bid him gain the seven \_pud\_ key.

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**Who acts:** Thou, evil witch · **What happens:** witch, bid, peck, gain · **To what, where:** crow, sea, fiery snake, snake, seven pud

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, evil witch), 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:pg62509:40:45
# text = “Thou, oh evil witch of Kíev, bid thy crow fly over the sea of Khvalýnsk, to the house of bronze; bid him peck the fiery snake, bid him gain the seven _pud_ key.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	fly	fly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Khvalýnsk	Khvalýnsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	pud	pud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	_
41	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **witch** *in a quote* |  | Thou |  |  |  |  | of Kíev | tree rules |
| 2 | **bid** *in a quote* | past | evil witch | thy crow |  | the sea of Khvalýnsk |  | to the house of bronze; fly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bid** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | crow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **peck** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the fiery snake |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient |
| 5 | **bid** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | snake |  |  |  | key *obl* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gain** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the seven pud |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pud=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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