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title: “You who have cured so many _boyárs_ and generals, cannot do anythin… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You who have cured so many _boyárs_ and generals, cannot do anything for me! 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 65

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“You who have cured so many \_boyárs\_ and generals, cannot do anything for me!

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**What happens:** cure, not do · **To what, where:** You, anything

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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: 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:pg62509:13:65
# text = “You who have cured so many _boyárs_ and generals, cannot do anything for me!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass*; many boyárs and generals *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | can |  | anything |  |  |  | for the soldier *= soldier* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

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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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