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title: “God bless you; but there have been some dare-devils like you who pa… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “God bless you; but there have been some dare-devils like you who passed a night in this palace, and not one emerged alive!” Who acts: God, dare devils, one. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 150

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“God bless you; but there have been some dare-devils like you who passed a night in this palace, and not one emerged alive!”

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**Who acts:** God, dare devils, one · **What happens:** bless, be, pass, emerge · **To what, where:** you, palace

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, dare devils, one), 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:pg62509:12:150
# text = “God bless you; but there have been some dare-devils like you who passed a night in this palace, and not one emerged alive!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
11	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
27	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
28	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present · perfect | some dare devils like you |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** *in a quote* | past | some dare devils like you |  |  | this palace | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 4 | **emerge** *in a quote* | participle | one |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:** «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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