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title: As you know, merchants who wear boots and furs come to see you, whil… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As you know, merchants who wear boots and furs come to see you, whilst I have only bast shoes, and I only have my grey coat.” Who acts: you, merchants, 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 137

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As you know, merchants who wear boots and furs come to see you, whilst I have only bast shoes, and I only have my grey coat.”

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**Who acts:** you, merchants, I · **What happens:** know, wear, come, see, have · **To what, where:** boots, you, bast shoes, grey coat

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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 (you, merchants, 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:pg62509:35:137
# text = As you know, merchants who wear boots and furs come to see you, whilst I have only bast shoes, and I only have my grey coat.”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	bast	bast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wear** | present | merchants | boots and furs |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | merchants |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | merchants *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | present | I | bast shoes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | I | my grey coat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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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