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title: Sorrow will rend my brother’s body asunder, so that he cannot then b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorrow will rend my brother’s body asunder, so that he cannot then brag of his riches in front of me.” Who acts: Sorrow. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 61

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Sorrow will rend my brother’s body asunder, so that he cannot then brag of his riches in front of me.”

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**Who acts:** Sorrow · **What happens:** rend, not brag · **To what, where:** body asunder, front

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow), 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:pg62509:36:61
# text = Sorrow will rend my brother’s body asunder, so that he cannot then brag of his riches in front of me.”
1	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rend	rend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | future | Sorrow | my brother's body asunder |  | front of me |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **brag** *speech: other* | can | Sorrow |  |  |  | then | of Sorrow's riches | tree rules |

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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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