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title: “What are you bragging for?” answered the peasant, “I will break you… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What are you bragging for?” answered the peasant, “I will break you up into little bits.” Who acts: you, peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 73

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“What are you bragging for?” answered the peasant, “I will break you up into little bits.”

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**Who acts:** you, peasant · **What happens:** brag, answer, break up · **To what, where:** you, little bits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, peasant), 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:pg62509:2:73
# text = “What are you bragging for?” answered the peasant, “I will break you up into little bits.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bragging	brag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brag** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the peasant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break up** *in a quote* | future | the peasant *= peasant* | you |  |  |  | into little bits *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into bit=Result |

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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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