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title: “Because your mother has bidden me take out your liver and brains an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Because your mother has bidden me take out your liver and brains and cook them.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 119

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“Because your mother has bidden me take out your liver and brains and cook them.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bid, take out, cook · **To what, where:** mother, liver

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg62509:7:119
# text = “Because your mother has bidden me take out your liver and brains and cook them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | your mother |  |  |  | me *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your liver and brains |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme |
| 3 | **cook** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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