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title: “Never mind, Gossip,” the poor man replied; “if you will be so good,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never mind, Gossip,” the poor man replied; “if you will be so good, I and my wife will still brew something together, and can drink together and celebrate the festival.” Who acts: poor man, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 34

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“Never mind, Gossip,” the poor man replied; “if you will be so good, I and my wife will still brew something together, and can drink together and celebrate the festival.”

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**Who acts:** poor man, you · **What happens:** not mind, reply, be, brew, drink, celebrate · **To what, where:** Gossip, something, festival · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poor man, 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:pg62509:35:34
# text = “Never mind, Gossip,” the poor man replied; “if you will be so good, I and my wife will still brew something together, and can drink together and celebrate the festival.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	brew	brew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	together	together	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Gossip |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gossip=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the poor man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **brew** *in a quote* | future | the poor man *= man* | something |  |  | still | together *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Product |
| 5 | **drink** *in a quote* | can | the poor man *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **celebrate** *in a quote* | present | the poor man *= man* *not said here* | the festival |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=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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