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title: “It shall be so; be at peace; we shall not be in default.” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It shall be so; be at peace; we shall not be in default.” Who acts: soul, we. 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 9

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“It shall be so; be at peace; we shall not be in default.”

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**Who acts:** soul, we · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** peace, default

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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 (soul, we), 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:pg62509:37:9
# text = “It shall be so; be at peace; we shall not be in default.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	default	default	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	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* | shall | soul |  |  | peace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  | default |  |  | 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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