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description: You have been guilty, and you must do me this service: I have a piece of waste ground thirty versts long and broad, and there is nothing on it except ditches, ravines and sharp stones. Who acts: You, I, nothing. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its depend
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 24

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You have been guilty, and you must do me this service: I have a piece of waste ground thirty versts long and broad, and there is nothing on it except ditches, ravines and sharp stones.

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**Who acts:** You, I, nothing · **What happens:** be, do, have · **To what, where:** service, me, piece

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, nothing), 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:pg62509:30:24
# text = You have been guilty, and you must do me this service: I have a piece of waste ground thirty versts long and broad, and there is nothing on it except ditches, ravines and sharp stones.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	versts	verst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	except	except	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	ravines	ravine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | must | you | this service | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | a piece of waste ground |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | present | nothing on ground except ditches and ravines and sharp stones |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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