--- title: Coo-Coo—Prince Danílo Coo-Coo—Govorílo Coo-Coo—’Tis a brother Coo-Co… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Coo-Coo—Prince Danílo Coo-Coo—Govorílo Coo-Coo—’Tis a brother Coo-Coo—Weds his sister: Coo-Coo—Earth must split asunder; Cooo—And the sister lie hid under. Who acts: brother, Earth, Coo. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Earth, Coo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:9:10 # text = Coo-Coo—Prince Danílo Coo-Coo—Govorílo Coo-Coo—’Tis a brother Coo-Coo—Weds his sister: Coo-Coo—Earth must split asunder; Cooo—And the sister lie hid under. 1 Coo coo NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Coo Coo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 — - PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 Danílo Danílo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 7 Coo Coo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Coo Coo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 — - PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Govorílo Govorílo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 Coo Coo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Coo Coo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ ' PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Tis Ti PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 Coo coo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Coo coo NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Weds wed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Coo coo NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Coo coo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 — - PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 split split VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 asunder asunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Cooo Cooo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 38 — - PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 And and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 42 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 43 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 ccomp _ _ 44 under under ADP IN _ 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **coo** | | brother | | | | | Weds *conj*; Coo Coo *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **split** | must | Earth | asunder | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient | | 3 | **lie** | present | Coo | | | | | Danílo Prince and Govorílo and Tis and the sister *nsubj* | tree rules | | 4 | **hide** | past | Coo *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/9/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/9/11/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/9/)