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title: “If it be so, then your name must be ‘Donotknow.’” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If it be so, then your name must be ‘Donotknow.’” Who acts: answer, name, your. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 91

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“If it be so, then your name must be ‘Donotknow.’”

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**Who acts:** answer, name, your · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** Donotknow

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, name, 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:pg62509:28:91
# text = “If it be so, then your name must be ‘Donotknow.’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Donotknow	Donotknow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | answer |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | your name | Donotknow |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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