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title: By your own good will or for need?” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By your own good will or for need?” 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 51

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By your own good will or for need?”

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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: 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:pg62509:24:51
# text = By your own good will or for need?”
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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