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title: Things simply happen; our exertions may sometimes be some good; we c… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Things simply happen; our exertions may sometimes be some good; we can only be quietly resigned. Who acts: Things, exertions, our. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 43

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Things simply happen; our exertions may sometimes be some good; we can only be quietly resigned.

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**Who acts:** Things, exertions, our · **What happens:** happen, be, resign, exert · **To what, where:** we

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (Things, exertions, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:44
# text = Things simply happen; our exertions may sometimes be some good; we can only be quietly resigned.
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	exertions	exertion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	resigned	resign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Things |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | may | our exertions |  |  |  |  | good, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **resign** | can · passive |  | we |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **exert** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom exertion «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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