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title: “The evil neighbour can be escaped; so can the evil wife if one has… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The evil neighbour can be escaped; so can the evil wife if one has children enough, but the weak intellect can never be got rid of.” Who acts: one. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 80

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“The evil neighbour can be escaped; so can the evil wife if one has children enough, but the weak intellect can never be got rid of.”

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** escape, have, not get · **To what, where:** evil neighbour, children, weak intellect

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg62509:22:80
# text = “The evil neighbour can be escaped; so can the evil wife if one has children enough, but the weak intellect can never be got rid of.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	intellect	intellect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
28	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | the evil neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | one | children |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | the weak intellect |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «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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