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title: “Whatever use is that sorry nag to you? — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Whatever use is that sorry nag to you? Who acts: Whatever, use. 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 38

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“Whatever use is that sorry nag to you?

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**Who acts:** Whatever, use · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** sorry nag, you

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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 (Whatever, use), 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:pg62509:5:39
# text = “Whatever use is that sorry nag to you?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nag	nag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** *in a quote* |  | Whatever |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | use | sorry nag | you |  |  |  | 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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