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title: I shall also begin sowing in the winter; possibly I shall have corn… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall also begin sowing in the winter; possibly I shall have corn as fine.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 114

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I shall also begin sowing in the winter; possibly I shall have corn as fine.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** begin, sow, have · **To what, where:** corn

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg62509:35:114
# text = I shall also begin sowing in the winter; possibly I shall have corn as fine.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sowing	sow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sow** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | I | corn |  |  |  | as fine; possibly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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