Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 5
There are a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of these duties, e.g. _The Devil in the Dough-pan_.
Who acts: number, curse attendant · What happens: be, tell, neglect · To what, where: duties · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, curse attendant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tales | case |
| 6 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 attendant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 attendant | det |
| 9 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attendant | compound |
| 10 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tales | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 neglect | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neglect | det |
| 13 | neglect | neglect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attendant | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 duties | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 duties | det |
| 16 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 neglect | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Devil | punct |
| 18 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 21 Devil | advmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 e.g. | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Devil | det |
| 21 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 are | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pan | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pan | det |
| 24 | Dough | Dough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 pan | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dough | punct |
| 26 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Devil | nmod |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Devil | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of this duties | there | the Devil in the Dough pan parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell | the curse attendant on the neglect of this duties | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | neglect | this duties | nom neglect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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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