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title: “If you will I can aid you in your trouble; I will collect all this… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you will I can aid you in your trouble; I will collect all this herd, only on condition that you give me what you do not know of at home.” Who acts: Tsar, you, your. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 97

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“If you will I can aid you in your trouble; I will collect all this herd, only on condition that you give me what you do not know of at home.”

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**Who acts:** Tsar, you, your · **What happens:** aid, collect, give, not know, trouble · **To what, where:** you, trouble, herd, condition, Tsar

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, 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:pg62509:29:97
# text = “If you will I can aid you in your trouble; I will collect all this herd, only on condition that you give me what you do not know of at home.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** *in a quote* | can · future | the Tsar *= tsar* |  | you | your trouble |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **collect** *in a quote* | future | the Tsar *= tsar* | all herd |  | condition |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present | you | condition | the Tsar *= tsar* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | of home; what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **trouble** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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