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title: “But if you will give me anything, give me that sorry jade—that batt… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But if you will give me anything, give me that sorry jade—that battered jade which carries your wood and water.” Who acts: you, that, jade. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 37

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“But if you will give me anything, give me that sorry jade—that battered jade which carries your wood and water.”

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**Who acts:** you, that, jade · **What happens:** give, batter, carry · **To what, where:** anything, Petrúsha, sorry jade, jade, wood

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, jade), 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:pg62509:5:38
# text = “But if you will give me anything, give me that sorry jade—that battered jade which carries your wood and water.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	battered	batter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | anything | Petrúsha |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | sorry jade | Petrúsha |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **batter** *in a quote* | past | that | jade |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jade=Patient |
| 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | present | jade | your wood and water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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