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title: We are breaking up this box and with our needles sewing it together… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We are breaking up this box and with our needles sewing it together again, and as soon as we have done that Death will come to us.” Who acts: We, needles, Death. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 150

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We are breaking up this box and with our needles sewing it together again, and as soon as we have done that Death will come to us.”

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**Who acts:** We, needles, Death · **What happens:** break up, sew, do, come · **To what, where:** box, us

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, needles, Death), 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:pg62509:22:150
# text = We are breaking up this box and with our needles sewing it together again, and as soon as we have done that Death will come to us.”
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break up** | present · progressive | We | this box |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
| 2 | **sew** | gerund | our needles | box |  |  | again | together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | future | Death |  | us |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_Location |

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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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