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title: Do not give any one false measure or cheat; and if you shall grow ri… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not give any one false measure or cheat; and if you shall grow rich, do not forget God, and to give alms to the poor, as I did time agone. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 46

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Do not give any one false measure or cheat; and if you shall grow rich, do not forget God, and to give alms to the poor, as I did time agone.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not give, grow, not forget, give, do · **To what, where:** any, God, alms, poor, time agone

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg62509:21:46
# text = Do not give any one false measure or cheat; and if you shall grow rich, do not forget God, and to give alms to the poor, as I did time agone.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
26	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	agone	agone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | any  one false measure or cheat |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | you |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | alms | the poor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to poor=Recipient |
| 5 | **do** | past | I | time agone |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agone=Eventuality |

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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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