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title: Prince Ivan begged Katoma to go with him, and gave his word of honor… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ivan begged Katoma to go with him, and gave his word of honor to obey him whether in joy or grief. Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 36

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Prince Ivan begged Katoma to go with him, and gave his word of honor to obey him whether in joy or grief.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ivan, Ivan · **What happens:** beg, go, give, obey, word · **To what, where:** Katoma, word, Ivan, honor

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ivan, Ivan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:43:36
# text = Prince Ivan begged Katoma to go with him, and gave his word of honor to obey him whether in joy or grief.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Prince Ivan |  | Katoma |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent katoma=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Ivan | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **give** | past | Prince Ivan *not said here* | Ivan's word of honor |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **obey** | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan *not said here* | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  | Ivan | honor |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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