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title: You might go round the entire earth and never see any horses as good. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You might go round the entire earth and never see any horses as good. Who acts: You. 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 37

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You might go round the entire earth and never see any horses as good.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** go, not see · **To what, where:** entire earth, horses

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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 (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:pg62509:7:37
# text = You might go round the entire earth and never see any horses as good.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | might | You |  |  | the entire earth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **see** | infinitive | You *not said here* | any horses |  |  |  | as good | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus as good=Attribute |

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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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