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title: Leave one little sheaf behind; more than that thou needst not leave,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave one little sheaf behind; more than that thou needst not leave, but that thou must leave. Who acts: you, that. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 10

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Leave one little sheaf behind; more than that thou needst not leave, but that thou must leave.

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** leave, not leave · **To what, where:** one little sheaf

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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:pg29672:9:10
# text = Leave one little sheaf behind; more than that thou needst not leave, but that thou must leave.
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
11	needst	needst	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | one little sheaf |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme more=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | must | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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