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title: “That is my own chosen bridegroom, who brought me back to light of d… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is my own chosen bridegroom, who brought me back to light of day, but for whom I should have remained beneath for ever!” Who acts: That, own chosen bridegroom, servant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 176

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“That is my own chosen bridegroom, who brought me back to light of day, but for whom I should have remained beneath for ever!”

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**Who acts:** That, own chosen bridegroom, servant · **What happens:** choose, be, bring back, remain, light · **To what, where:** own chosen bridegroom, servant, light, day

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, own chosen bridegroom, servant), 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:pg62509:9:176
# text = “That is my own chosen bridegroom, who brought me back to light of day, but for whom I should have remained beneath for ever!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	parataxis	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | my own chosen bridegroom |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring back** *in a quote* | past | my own chosen bridegroom | servant |  | light of day |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to light=Destination |
| 4 | **remain** *in a quote* | should · perfect | servant |  |  |  |  | beneath *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **light** *in a quote* |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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