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title: Every night an assemblage of devils meets there, make a row, dance,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every night an assemblage of devils meets there, make a row, dance, play cards, and perpetrate every sort of vileness!” Who acts: assemblage, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 146

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Every night an assemblage of devils meets there, make a row, dance, play cards, and perpetrate every sort of vileness!”

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**Who acts:** assemblage, you · **What happens:** meet, make, dance, play, perpetrate, sort · **To what, where:** row, cards, sort, vileness

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (assemblage, 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:pg62509:12:146
# text = Every night an assemblage of devils meets there, make a row, dance, play cards, and perpetrate every sort of vileness!”
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	assemblage	assemblage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dance	dance	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	perpetrate	perpetrate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	vileness	vileness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | a assemblage of devils |  |  | there | night |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a row |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset row=Product |
| 3 | **dance** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | cards |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 5 | **perpetrate** | infinitive |  | every sort of vileness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | vileness |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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