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title: If you think of it, what a big world God’s world is: in it rich and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you think of it, what a big world God’s world is: in it rich and poor folk live, and there is room enough for them all; and the Lord overlooks and judges them all. Who acts: you, big world, rich folk, room. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependen
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 139

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If you think of it, what a big world God’s world is: in it rich and poor folk live, and there is room enough for them all; and the Lord overlooks and judges them all.

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**Who acts:** you, big world, rich folk, room, Lord · **What happens:** think, be, live, overlook, judge · **To what, where:** folks

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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, big world, rich folk, room), 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:pg62509:16:139
# text = If you think of it, what a big world God’s world is: in it rich and poor folk live, and there is room enough for them all; and the Lord overlooks and judges them all.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	overlooks	overlook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	judges	judge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  | of life | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a big world |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | rich folk |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | room for folks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **overlook** | present | the Lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **judge** | present | the Lord *not said here* | folks *= folk* |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent they=Value |

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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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