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title: I am the Tsar, and it is thy duty to obey me."--"In all things will… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the Tsar, and it is thy duty to obey me."--"In all things will I obey thee, O Tsar, save only in sacred things. Who acts: I, grease. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 12

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I am the Tsar, and it is thy duty to obey me."--"In all things will I obey thee, O Tsar, save only in sacred things.

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**Who acts:** I, grease · **What happens:** be, obey, save · **To what, where:** Tsar, duty, me, thee, things, sacred things

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grease), 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:pg29672:19:12
# text = I am the Tsar, and it is thy duty to obey me."--"In all things will I obey thee, O Tsar, save only in sacred things.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	27	case	_	_
27	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the Tsar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | grease | thy duty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **obey** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **obey** | future | I | thee |  | all things |  | of Tsar | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 5 | **save** | infinitive | I *not said here* | sacred things |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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