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title: “But your sleep would have been very much longer if we had not been… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But your sleep would have been very much longer if we had not been there,” answered the brothers-in-law. Who acts: we, brothers, your. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 22

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“But your sleep would have been very much longer if we had not been there,” answered the brothers-in-law.

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**Who acts:** we, brothers, your · **What happens:** have, be, not be, answer, sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, brothers, 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:pg62509:24:22
# text = “But your sleep would have been very much longer if we had not been there,” answered the brothers-in-law.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the brothers and law |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sleep** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state 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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