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title: So buy some small goods, and you will have more purchasers, and will… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So buy some small goods, and you will have more purchasers, and will not incur sin.” Who acts: you. 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 60

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So buy some small goods, and you will have more purchasers, and will not incur sin.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** buy, have, not incur · **To what, where:** small goods, more purchasers, sin

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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), 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:pg62509:21:60
# text = So buy some small goods, and you will have more purchasers, and will not incur sin.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	purchasers	purchaser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	incur	incur	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | some small goods |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | future | you | more purchasers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **incur** | future | you *not said here* | sin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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