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title: “May that woman be accursed!” he said. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “May that woman be accursed!” he said. Who acts: Tsarévna. 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 108

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“May that woman be accursed!” he said.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna · **What happens:** accurs, say · **To what, where:** May · **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: who acts (Tsarévna), 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:pg62509:37:110
# text = “May that woman be accursed!” he said.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	May	may	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accurs** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | May  that woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Tsarévna |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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