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title: “Sew me this _shúba_ at once: the sables are not prepared, the butto… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sew me this _shúba_ at once: the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, the buttonholes are not sewn.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 66

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“Sew me this \_shúba\_ at once: the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, the buttonholes are not sewn.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sew, not prepare, not mould, not sew · **To what, where:** shúba, twelve youths, sables, buttons, buttonholes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. 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:pg62509:4:66
# text = “Sew me this _shúba_ at once: the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, the buttonholes are not sewn.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sew	sew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shúba	shúba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sables	sable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	moulded	mould	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	buttonholes	buttonhole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | this shúba | the twelve youths *= youth* |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary shúba=Product |
| 2 | **not** **prepare** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the sables |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **mould** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the buttons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **sew** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the buttonholes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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