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title: In the morning Tsar Výslav Andrónovich called his son Dmítri to him,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning Tsar Výslav Andrónovich called his son Dmítri to him, and he asked him: “Well, my beloved son, did you see the Bird of Light, or did you not?” Who acts: Tsar, LIGHT, beloved son. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 66

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In the morning Tsar Výslav Andrónovich called his son Dmítri to him, and he asked him: “Well, my beloved son, did you see the Bird of Light, or did you not?”

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**Who acts:** Tsar, LIGHT, beloved son · **What happens:** call, ask, see, not do · **To what, where:** son, LIGHT, reward, Bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tsar, LIGHT, beloved son), 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:pg62509:10:66
# text = In the morning Tsar Výslav Andrónovich called his son Dmítri to him, and he asked him: “Well, my beloved son, did you see the Bird of Light, or did you not?”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Výslav	Výslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Andrónovich	Andrónovich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Dmítri	Dmítri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Tsar | LIGHT's son | LIGHT |  | morning |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | LIGHT |  | reward |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past · do-support | my beloved son | the Bird of Light |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | my beloved son *not said here* | reward |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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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