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title: Each of the four sons, one after the other, cast the burden of suppo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of the four sons, one after the other, cast the burden of supporting him on one of the other brothers. " Who acts: you, burden. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 72

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Each of the four sons, one after the other, cast the burden of supporting him on one of the other brothers. "

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**Who acts:** you, burden · **What happens:** cast, support · **To what, where:** burden, man

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, burden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:22:72
# text = Each of the four sons, one after the other, cast the burden of supporting him on one of the other brothers. "
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	supporting	support	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | imperative | you *not said here* | the burden |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Product |
| 2 | **support** | gerund | the burden *not said here* | man |  |  |  | on one of the other brothers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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