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title: For they would not marry separately, and what mother could they find… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For they would not marry separately, and what mother could they find who should boast of having forty-one daughters? Who acts: brides, mother. 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 44

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For they would not marry separately, and what mother could they find who should boast of having forty-one daughters?

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**Who acts:** brides, mother · **What happens:** not marry, find, boast, have · **To what, where:** one daughters

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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 (brides, mother), 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:pg62509:7:44
# text = For they would not marry separately, and what mother could they find who should boast of having forty-one daughters?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **marry** | would | brides *= bride* |  |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | could | mother |  |  |  |  | what *obj*; brides *= bride* *nsubj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | should |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | gerund |  | one daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |

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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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