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title: The _guslyár_ then flung off his outer garment, and they then all re… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The _guslyár_ then flung off his outer garment, and they then all recognised the Tsarítsa. 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 53

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The \_guslyár\_ then flung off his outer garment, and they then all recognised the Tsarítsa.

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**Who acts:** guslyár, Tsar · **What happens:** fling off, recognise · **To what, where:** outer garment, Tsarítsa

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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:pg62509:10:53
# text = The _guslyár_ then flung off his outer garment, and they then all recognised the Tsarítsa.
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	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Tsarítsa	Tsarítsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling off** | past | the guslyár | guslyár's outer garment |  |  | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | Tsar | the Tsarítsa |  |  | then | all *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tsarítsa=Stimulus |

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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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