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title: In my power it is not to fly to the sea of Khvalýnsk; in my power it… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In my power it is not to fly to the sea of Khvalýnsk; in my power it is not to peck to death the fiery snake; nor with my legs may I reach the seven _pud_ key. Who acts: power, I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 41

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In my power it is not to fly to the sea of Khvalýnsk; in my power it is not to peck to death the fiery snake; nor with my legs may I reach the seven \_pud\_ key.

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**Who acts:** power, I · **What happens:** not be, reach · **To what, where:** power, seven pud

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, I), 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:pg62509:40:41
# text = In my power it is not to fly to the sea of Khvalýnsk; in my power it is not to peck to death the fiery snake; nor with my legs may I reach the seven _pud_ key.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Khvalýnsk	Khvalýnsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	35	cc	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	pud	pud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	_
41	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | power |  |  | my power |  | to the sea of Khvalýnsk; fly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | power |  |  | my power |  | to death; the fiery snake *obj*; peck *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | may | I | seven pud |  |  |  | with my legs; key *conj* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pud=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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