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title: Do thou bid, by my enchanting words, the crow gain me the seven _pud… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do thou bid, by my enchanting words, the crow gain me the seven _pud_ key. Who acts: thou, enchanting words, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 48

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Do thou bid, by my enchanting words, the crow gain me the seven \_pud\_ key.

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**Who acts:** thou, enchanting words, my · **What happens:** bid, enchant, gain, word · **To what, where:** me

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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, enchanting words, my), 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:pg62509:40:48
# text = Do thou bid, by my enchanting words, the crow gain me the seven _pud_ key.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pud	pud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
19	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | infinitive · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enchant** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **gain** | present | my enchanting words and the crow | me |  |  |  | the seven pud *obl:unmarked*; key *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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