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title: “If you wish my sister, I will not say you nay: take her with God’s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you wish my sister, I will not say you nay: take her with God’s blessing.” Who acts: you, Iván, God. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 46

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“If you wish my sister, I will not say you nay: take her with God’s blessing.”

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**Who acts:** you, Iván, God · **What happens:** wish, not say, take, bless · **To what, where:** sister, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Iván, God), 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:pg62509:23:46
# text = “If you wish my sister, I will not say you nay: take her with God’s blessing.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | my sister |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sister=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Iván | you |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme nay=Manner |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Sister |  |  | with God's blessing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 4 | **bless** *in a quote* |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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