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title: Do the same by me, otherwise life with her won’t be worth living.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do the same by me, otherwise life with her won’t be worth living.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 107

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Do the same by me, otherwise life with her won’t be worth living.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, not be, live · **To what, where:** same

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:16:107
# text = Do the same by me, otherwise life with her won’t be worth living.”
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | the same |  |  |  | by me; life *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | woman *nmod:poss*; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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