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title: “Never mind, _bátyushka_,” said Zamorýshek, “we will catch the thief… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never mind, _bátyushka_,” said Zamorýshek, “we will catch the thief: give me a hundred roubles, and I will do the deed.” Who acts: Zamorýshek, we. 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 25

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“Never mind, \_bátyushka\_,” said Zamorýshek, “we will catch the thief: give me a hundred roubles, and I will do the deed.”

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**Who acts:** Zamorýshek, we · **What happens:** not mind, say, catch, give, do · **To what, where:** bátyushka, thief, hundred roubles, Zamorýshek, deed · **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 (Zamorýshek, we), 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:pg62509:7:25
# text = “Never mind, _bátyushka_,” said Zamorýshek, “we will catch the thief: give me a hundred roubles, and I will do the deed.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bátyushka	bátyushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Zamorýshek	Zamorýshek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | bátyushka |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bátyushka=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zamorýshek |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **catch** *in a quote* | future | we | the thief |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | hundred roubles | Zamorýshek |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rouble=Theme |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Zamorýshek | the deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |

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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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