--- title: “It would be possible to sow barley and to wait until it grows up, r… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “It would be possible to sow barley and to wait until it grows up, reap it, thresh it, to brew beer, drink it until you were drunk, sleep out your sleep and then to go on the hunt, and we should still succeed.” Who acts: It, jade, you, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, jade, you, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:24:6 # text = “It would be possible to sow barley and to wait until it grows up, reap it, thresh it, to brew beer, drink it until you were drunk, sleep out your sleep and then to go on the hunt, and we should still succeed.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sow sow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _ 8 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 reap reap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 thresh thresh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 brew brew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 sleep sleep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 48 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 still still ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | would | It | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | barley | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barley=Theme | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present | jade | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **reap** *in a quote* | infinitive | | jade | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **thresh** *in a quote* | infinitive | | jade | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **brew** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | beer | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product | | 8 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | | jade | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | drunk *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **sleep out** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your sleep | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | | 11 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | the hunt | then | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hunt=Location | | 12 | **succeed** *in a quote* | should | we | | | | still | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **sleep** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/)