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title: Thresh me all the barley clean, quite clean to the last grain, and d… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thresh me all the barley clean, quite clean to the last grain, and do not destroy the hayricks nor beat down the sheaves. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 41

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Thresh me all the barley clean, quite clean to the last grain, and do not destroy the hayricks nor beat down the sheaves.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** thresh, not destroy · **To what, where:** me, hayricks

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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), 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:pg62509:30:41
# text = Thresh me all the barley clean, quite clean to the last grain, and do not destroy the hayricks nor beat down the sheaves.
1	Thresh	thresh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hayricks	hayrick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thresh** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | all barley *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **destroy** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | the hayricks nor beat |  |  |  | down the sheaves | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hayrick=Patient |

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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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