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title: This monastery has stood a hundred years if it has stood a day, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This monastery has stood a hundred years if it has stood a day, and won't stand much longer either," and with that he turned him back. Who acts: monastery, monk. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 125

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This monastery has stood a hundred years if it has stood a day, and won't stand much longer either," and with that he turned him back.

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**Who acts:** monastery, monk · **What happens:** stand, not stand, turn back · **To what, where:** monastery, father

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monastery, monk), 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:pg29672:24:125
# text = This monastery has stood a hundred years if it has stood a day, and won't stand much longer either," and with that he turned him back.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present · perfect | this monastery |  |  |  | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive |  | monastery |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **stand** | future |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn back** *in a quote* | past | monk | father |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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