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title: He brought Sorrow with him home, and his household went from bad to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He brought Sorrow with him home, and his household went from bad to worse. Who acts: Sorrow, household. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 76

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He brought Sorrow with him home, and his household went from bad to worse.

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**Who acts:** Sorrow, household · **What happens:** bring, go · **To what, where:** Sorrow, bad

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, household), 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:pg62509:36:76
# text = He brought Sorrow with him home, and his household went from bad to worse.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sorrow	Sorrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Sorrow |  | Sorrow |  |  | with brother; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sorrow=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | Sorrow's household |  |  | bad |  | to worse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bad=Initial\_Location to bad=Destination |

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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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