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title: First of all give us food and drink, take us into the bath, and ther… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: First of all give us food and drink, take us into the bath, and thereafter ask us for our news, and question us.” 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 49

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First of all give us food and drink, take us into the bath, and thereafter ask us for our news, and question us.”

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**What happens:** give, take, ask, question · **To what, where:** food, us, bath

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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: 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:pg62509:7:49
# text = First of all give us food and drink, take us into the bath, and thereafter ask us for our news, and question us.”
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	question	question	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present |  | food and drink | us |  |  | first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient food=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | us |  | the bath |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into bath=Destination |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  | for our news; thereafter *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 4 | **question** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |

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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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