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title: “Oh, the work is easy enough: for fifteen years you must not shave,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, the work is easy enough: for fifteen years you must not shave, you must not have your hair cut, you must not blow your nose, and you must not change your garb. Who acts: work, you, hair. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 5

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“Oh, the work is easy enough: for fifteen years you must not shave, you must not have your hair cut, you must not blow your nose, and you must not change your garb.

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**Who acts:** work, you, hair · **What happens:** be, not shave, not have, cut, not blow, not change · **To what, where:** hair, nose, garb

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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 (work, you, hair), 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:pg62509:37:5
# text = “Oh, the work is easy enough: for fifteen years you must not shave, you must not have your hair cut, you must not blow your nose, and you must not change your garb.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the work |  |  |  |  | easy, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shave** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  | year |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | must | you | your hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** *in a quote* | participle | your hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **blow** *in a quote* | must | you | your nose |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | must | you | your garb |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garb=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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