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title: _ For the punishment of the old man who grumbled at the good things… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ For the punishment of the old man who grumbled at the good things of earth there is a surprisingly close analogy in Dante’s _Inferno_, canto vii. Who acts: old man, earth. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 130

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\_ For the punishment of the old man who grumbled at the good things of earth there is a surprisingly close analogy in Dante’s \_Inferno\_, canto vii.

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**Who acts:** old man, earth · **What happens:** grumble, be, punish · **To what, where:** close analogy, good things, old man

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, earth), 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:pg62509:39:130
# text = _ For the punishment of the old man who grumbled at the good things of earth there is a surprisingly close analogy in Dante’s _Inferno_, canto vii.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	surprisingly	surprisingly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	analogy	analogy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Dante	Dante	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Inferno	Inferno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	canto	canto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | the old man | Dante's close analogy |  | the good things of earth |  | Inferno *parataxis* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | earth *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **punish** |  |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act 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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