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title: At the pike’s good pleasure, By God’s good measure— — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the pike’s good pleasure, By God’s good measure— Who acts: pike, God. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 11

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At the pike’s good pleasure, By God’s good measure—

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**Who acts:** pike, God · **What happens:** please, measure · **To what, where:** good pleasure

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pike, God), 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:pg62509:33:11
# text = At the pike’s good pleasure, By God’s good measure—
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	By	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **please** |  | the pike |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **measure** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act 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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