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title: You, they say, are good to all folks: will you lend me some money? — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You, they say, are good to all folks: will you lend me some money? Who acts: You. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 24

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You, they say, are good to all folks: will you lend me some money?

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** say, be, lend · **To what, where:** money, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:37:24
# text = You, they say, are good to all folks: will you lend me some money?
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You |  |  |  |  | words *= word* *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to all folks; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lend** | future | you | some money | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=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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