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title: If thou dost consent, 'twill be to thy profit; but if thou dost not… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou dost consent, 'twill be to thy profit; but if thou dost not consent, thou shalt not remain in the land of Russia." Who acts: thou, twill. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 91

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If thou dost consent, 'twill be to thy profit; but if thou dost not consent, thou shalt not remain in the land of Russia."

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**Who acts:** thou, twill · **What happens:** do, be, not remain · **To what, where:** consent, land

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (thou, twill), 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:pg29672:25:91
# text = If thou dost consent, 'twill be to thy profit; but if thou dost not consent, thou shalt not remain in the land of Russia."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	twill	twill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
21	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | consent |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | twill |  |  |  |  | to thy profit | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | consent |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **remain** | shall | thou |  |  | the land of Russia |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |

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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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