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title: Put it on your son’s hand, and he will then be rich and generous: on… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Put it on your son’s hand, and he will then be rich and generous: only he must marry the maiden whom this ring fits.” Who acts: you, son, ring. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 128

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Put it on your son’s hand, and he will then be rich and generous: only he must marry the maiden whom this ring fits.”

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**Who acts:** you, son, ring · **What happens:** put, be, marry, fit · **To what, where:** ring, hand, maiden

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son, ring), 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:pg62509:8:128
# text = Put it on your son’s hand, and he will then be rich and generous: only he must marry the maiden whom this ring fits.”
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | ring |  | your son's hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on hand=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | future | son |  |  |  | then | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | must | son | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient |
| 5 | **fit** | present | this ring |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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