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title: There is new work to be done—old folks to be turned into young!” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is new work to be done—old folks to be turned into young!” Who acts: new work. 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 72

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There is new work to be done—old folks to be turned into young!”

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**Who acts:** new work · **What happens:** be, do, turn · **To what, where:** young

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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 (new work), 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:pg62509:16:72
# text = There is new work to be done—old folks to be turned into young!”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | new work and old folks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | new work and old folks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive · passive | new work and old folks *not said here* |  |  | young |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into young=Trajectory |

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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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