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description: Whatsoever that son says--it shall be done: whatsoever he desires--that will the Lord bestow!'" Who acts: son, bridge, Lord. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 100

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Whatsoever that son says--it shall be done: whatsoever he desires--that will the Lord bestow!'"

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**Who acts:** son, bridge, Lord · **What happens:** say, do, desire, bestow · **To what, where:** Whatsoever, work, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, bridge, Lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:52:100
# text = Whatsoever that son says--it shall be done: whatsoever he desires--that will the Lord bestow!'"
1	Whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bestow	bestow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | that son | Whatsoever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | shall · passive |  | work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **desire** | present | bridge | whatsoever |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatsoever=Theme |
| 4 | **bestow** | future | the Lord | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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