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title: “Yes, certainly: if any one were to make a pile of aspen wood, one h… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, certainly: if any one were to make a pile of aspen wood, one hundred cartloads in all, and to burn me on the pile, it can be done; then I should be overcome. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 153

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“Yes, certainly: if any one were to make a pile of aspen wood, one hundred cartloads in all, and to burn me on the pile, it can be done; then I should be overcome.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be, make, burn, do, overcome · **To what, where:** pile, soldier, one

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg62509:2:153
# text = “Yes, certainly: if any one were to make a pile of aspen wood, one hundred cartloads in all, and to burn me on the pile, it can be done; then I should be overcome.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	41	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	aspen	aspen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cartloads	cartload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* | a pile of aspen wood and hundred cartloads in all |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product |
| 3 | **burn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the soldier *= soldier* |  | the pile |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | pile |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **overcome** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | any one |  |  | then | I *nsubj* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=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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