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title: There are a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There are a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of these duties, e.g. _The Devil in the Dough-pan_. Who acts: number, curse attendant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 5

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There are a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of these duties, e.g. \_The Devil in the Dough-pan\_.

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**Who acts:** number, curse attendant · **What happens:** be, tell, neglect · **To what, where:** duties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, curse attendant), 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:pg62509:40:5
# text = There are a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of these duties, e.g. _The Devil in the Dough-pan_.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Dough	Dough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a number of tales of the curse attendant on the neglect of this duties |  |  | there |  | the Devil in the Dough pan *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** |  | the curse attendant on the neglect of this duties |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **neglect** |  |  | this duties |  |  |  |  | nom neglect «cognition 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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