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title: The _guslyár_ looked at the prisoners, selected the Tsar, and they w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The _guslyár_ looked at the prisoners, selected the Tsar, and they went out to roam together. Who acts: guslyár, Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 33

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The \_guslyár\_ looked at the prisoners, selected the Tsar, and they went out to roam together.

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**Who acts:** guslyár, Tsar · **What happens:** look, select, go out, roam · **To what, where:** guslyár, Tsar

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guslyár, Tsar), 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:pg62509:10:33
# text = The _guslyár_ looked at the prisoners, selected the Tsar, and they went out to roam together.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	guslyár	guslyár	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	roam	roam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | participle |  | the guslyár *not said here* |  |  |  | at the prisoners | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prisoner=Theme |
| 2 | **select** | past | the guslyár | the Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roam** | to-infinitive | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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