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title: “With God’s help get it ready, and stay here quietly waiting.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “With God’s help get it ready, and stay here quietly waiting.” Who acts: you, God. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 136

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“With God’s help get it ready, and stay here quietly waiting.”

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**Who acts:** you, God · **What happens:** get, stay, wait, help · **To what, where:** help

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, God), 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:pg62509:14:136
# text = “With God’s help get it ready, and stay here quietly waiting.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | help |  |  |  | with God's help; ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «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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