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title: If I don’t find out now, possibly the king will put me under arrest.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I don’t find out now, possibly the king will put me under arrest.” Who acts: I, king. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 145

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If I don’t find out now, possibly the king will put me under arrest.”

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**Who acts:** I, king · **What happens:** not find out, put · **To what, where:** me, arrest

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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:pg62509:13:145
# text = If I don’t find out now, possibly the king will put me under arrest.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | future | the king | me |  | arrest |  | possibly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under arrest=Destination |

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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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