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title: “What will you?—you had better measure your strength with him: to wh… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What will you?—you had better measure your strength with him: to whichever of you conquers I will give my daughter.” Who acts: you, King. 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 75

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“What will you?—you had better measure your strength with him: to whichever of you conquers I will give my daughter.”

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**Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** have, measure, conquer, give · **To what, where:** strength, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, King), 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:pg62509:33:75
# text = “What will you?—you had better measure your strength with him: to whichever of you conquers I will give my daughter.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	advcl	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whichever	whichever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	conquers	conquer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | What  you *advcl*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **measure** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your strength |  |  |  | with youth | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme strength=Value |
| 3 | **conquer** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | to whichever of you | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the King *= king* |  | my daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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