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title: “WHO GOES TO THE RIGHT SHALL RECEIVE A KINGDOM, WHO GOES TO THE LEFT… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “WHO GOES TO THE RIGHT SHALL RECEIVE A KINGDOM, WHO GOES TO THE LEFT SHALL RECEIVE MUCH OF EVIL AND OF GRIEF, BUT HE SHALL MARRY A FAIR PRINCESS.” Who acts: KINGDOM, youngest. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 127

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“WHO GOES TO THE RIGHT SHALL RECEIVE A KINGDOM, WHO GOES TO THE LEFT SHALL RECEIVE MUCH OF EVIL AND OF GRIEF, BUT HE SHALL MARRY A FAIR PRINCESS.”

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**Who acts:** KINGDOM, youngest · **What happens:** go, receive, marry · **To what, where:** KINGDOM, MUCH, FAIR PRINCESS · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (KINGDOM, youngest), 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:pg62509:7:127
# text = “WHO GOES TO THE RIGHT SHALL RECEIVE A KINGDOM, WHO GOES TO THE LEFT SHALL RECEIVE MUCH OF EVIL AND OF GRIEF, BUT HE SHALL MARRY A FAIR PRINCESS.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	GOES	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	RIGHT	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	SHALL	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	RECEIVE	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	KINGDOM	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	GOES	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LEFT	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	SHALL	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	RECEIVE	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	MUCH	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
20	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	EVIL	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
22	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	GRIEF	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	BUT	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	SHALL	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	MARRY	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	FAIR	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | WHO *nsubj* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **receive** *in a quote* | shall |  | a KINGDOM |  |  |  | to the RIGHT | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | a KINGDOM |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **receive** *in a quote* | shall | a KINGDOM *not said here* | MUCH of EVIL and GRIEF |  |  |  | to the LEFT | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | shall | youngest *= young* | a FAIR PRINCESS |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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