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title: “Very well, then: if the chain hold, I will give you one hundred rou… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Very well, then: if the chain hold, I will give you one hundred roubles; if it break, your labour’s lost.” Who acts: smith, hold. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

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“Very well, then: if the chain hold, I will give you one hundred roubles; if it break, your labour’s lost.”

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**Who acts:** smith, hold · **What happens:** give, break, lose · **To what, where:** hundred roubles, you, labour

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, hold), 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:pg62509:7:28
# text = “Very well, then: if the chain hold, I will give you one hundred roubles; if it break, your labour’s lost.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the smith *= smith* | hundred roubles | you |  | then | the chain hold *advcl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rouble=Theme |
| 2 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | hold |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | your labour |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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