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title: If the Lord had left me without kith and kin, I should not complain;… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Lord had left me without kith and kin, I should not complain; but strange indeed is the woe that has befallen me! Who acts: Lord, I, woe. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 101

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If the Lord had left me without kith and kin, I should not complain; but strange indeed is the woe that has befallen me!

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**Who acts:** Lord, I, woe · **What happens:** leave, not complain, be, befall · **To what, where:** me, woe

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, I, woe), 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:pg29672:22:101
# text = If the Lord had left me without kith and kin, I should not complain; but strange indeed is the woe that has befallen me!
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	kith	kith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the Lord |  | me |  |  | without kith and kin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **complain** *speech: other* | should | I |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the woe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **befall** | present · perfect | the woe | me |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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