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420 ALBERT B. LORDFor example, in the following, the verb, meaning "wish for," is locatedtwo or three lines above:variant A, line 12: "Czoho ty za mnoiu uhaniaiesz?/Why do you run after me?/Czy na moi zbroi iasnyi?/Is it for my gleaming weapons?/Czy na moi koni woronyi?"/Is it for my black horses?/and its counterpartvariant G, line 48: На віщо жъ ти важишъ:/What do you wish for?/Чи на мою ясненькую зброю,/Is it for my gleaming weapon?/Чи на мого коня вороного,/Is it for my black horse?/There is only one case where the horses appear with the governingverb in the first line of the series. This is in response to the questionsasked above in variant A, which comes in line 17: "ne nabihaiu ia natwoi koni woronyi (I am not coming for your black horses)." Variant Voffers two examples where the governing verb is in the following line:variant V, line 29: Оть теперъ твого одного коня вороного/Now your one black horse/Поведу до шинкарки пропивати,/І shall lead to the tavern to drink away,/А другимъ твоим конемъ воронымъ/and on your other black horse/По Килиму-городу гуляти!/[I shall] ride through the city of Kylym [Kylyia]./This usage is extended to the diminutive in a line modifying the linebefore it:line 8:«Ты козаченьку молодый,/You, young Cossack!/Под тобою кониченько вороный!/A little black horse is under you./It is to be noted that these phrases with voronyj occur in (1) comparativelyshort lines, frequently in a series, as in a catalogue, with thegoverning verb in either a preceding or a following line, and (2) in