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title: Once a woman was kneading bread, but had forgotten to say the blessi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once a woman was kneading bread, but had forgotten to say the blessing. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 101

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Once a woman was kneading bread, but had forgotten to say the blessing.

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**What happens:** knead, forget, not say · **To what, where:** bread, blessing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:37:103
# text = Once a woman was kneading bread, but had forgotten to say the blessing.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	kneading	knead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knead** | past · progressive |  | bread |  |  |  | once a woman | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bread=Material |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the blessing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic |

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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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