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title: “No, brother; take these few pence—that will be enough for you; you… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, brother; take these few pence—that will be enough for you; you will get a pint and can drink it out on your way home and go to sleep.” Who acts: you, that. 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 81

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“No, brother; take these few pence—that will be enough for you; you will get a pint and can drink it out on your way home and go to sleep.”

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** take, be, get, drink out, go · **To what, where:** few pence, pint, way, sleep

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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, that), 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:pg62509:7:81
# text = “No, brother; take these few pence—that will be enough for you; you will get a pint and can drink it out on your way home and go to sleep.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | this few pence |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pence=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | that |  |  |  |  | for you; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | future | you | a pint |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pint=Stimulus |
| 4 | **drink out** *in a quote* | can | you *not said here* | pint |  | your way |  | home *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |

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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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