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title: In the morning the Tsar called his second son and questioned him, an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning the Tsar called his second son and questioned him, and he answered: “Gracious lord, my father, this night the Bird of Light did not come.” Who acts: Tsar, LIGHT, Bird. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 70

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In the morning the Tsar called his second son and questioned him, and he answered: “Gracious lord, my father, this night the Bird of Light did not come.”

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**Who acts:** Tsar, LIGHT, Bird · **What happens:** call, question, answer, not come · **To what, where:** second son, LIGHT, Gracious lord · **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, Bird), 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:pg62509:10:70
# text = In the morning the Tsar called his second son and questioned him, and he answered: “Gracious lord, my father, this night the Bird of Light did not come.”
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	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	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	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | the Tsar |  | LIGHT's second son |  | morning |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 2 | **question** *speech: other* | past | the Tsar *not said here* |  | LIGHT |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | LIGHT | Gracious lord and my father and this night |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Bird of Light | Gracious lord and my father and this night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lord=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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