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title: “Oh, grandfather, little dove, do not slay us; we will give you all… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, grandfather, little dove, do not slay us; we will give you all the gold you desire, only pity us and let us free.” Who acts: grandfather, we, 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 120

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“Oh, grandfather, little dove, do not slay us; we will give you all the gold you desire, only pity us and let us free.”

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**Who acts:** grandfather, we, you · **What happens:** not slay, give, desire, pity, let · **To what, where:** us, gold, you

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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 (grandfather, we, 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:pg62509:7:120
# text = “Oh, grandfather, little dove, do not slay us; we will give you all the gold you desire, only pity us and let us free.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	pity	pity	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | grandfather and little dove | us |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future | we | all gold | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gold=Theme |
| 3 | **desire** *in a quote* | present | you | all gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme |
| 4 | **pity** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | us |  |  |  | free *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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