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title: I should be very glad to have some rest; but unless I die, earth wil… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should be very glad to have some rest; but unless I die, earth will not take me up; and you, discharged soldier, are guilty of an unforgivable sin in God’s eyes. Who acts: I, earth, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 92

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I should be very glad to have some rest; but unless I die, earth will not take me up; and you, discharged soldier, are guilty of an unforgivable sin in God’s eyes.

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**Who acts:** I, earth, you · **What happens:** be, have, die, not take up, discharge · **To what, where:** rest, me

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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, earth, you), 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:pg62509:13:92
# text = I should be very glad to have some rest; but unless I die, earth will not take me up; and you, discharged soldier, are guilty of an unforgivable sin in God’s eyes.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	unforgivable	unforgivable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some rest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
| 3 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **take up** | future | earth |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 5 | **discharge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of a unforgivable sin in God's eyes; guilty *property* | tree rules |

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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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