--- title: Then, as is the wont of princes, he called together his senators and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then, as is the wont of princes, he called together his senators and his servants, and they counselled their young prince to marry; so out he went to seek a bride, and a great retinue followed after him. Who acts: Prince, senators, great retinue. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, senators, great retinue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg29672:1830`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:25:70 # text = Then, as is the wont of princes, he called together his senators and his servants, and they counselled their young prince to marry; so out he went to seek a bride, and a great retinue followed after him. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wont wont NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 senators senator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 counselled counsel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 out out ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 retinue retinue NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 42 after after ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Prince *not said here* | the wont | | | | of princes | tree rules | | 2 | **call together** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | Prince's senators and Prince's servants | | | then | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent senator=Recipient | | 3 | **counsel** *speech: other* | past | senators *= senator* | senators's young prince | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | senators *= senator* *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **go** | past | Prince | | | | | out *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | a bride | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | | 7 | **follow** | past | a great retinue | | | | after Prince | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/71/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/)