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title: And your work has not been in vain; such a beauty as Márya Moryévna… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And your work has not been in vain; such a beauty as Márya Moryévna might be sought for all over the world and you would not have found any other.” Who acts: work, you, your. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 106

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And your work has not been in vain; such a beauty as Márya Moryévna might be sought for all over the world and you would not have found any other.”

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**Who acts:** work, you, your · **What happens:** not be, seek, not find, work · **To what, where:** beauty, other

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, you, your), 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:pg62509:24:106
# text = And your work has not been in vain; such a beauty as Márya Moryévna might be sought for all over the world and you would not have found any other.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present · perfect | your work |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | might · passive |  | such beauty as Márya |  |  |  | for the world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for world=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | would · perfect | you | any other |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Topic |
| 4 | **work** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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