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title: Tsar Výslav tried to keep Iván back, but he could not, and he let hi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tsar Výslav tried to keep Iván back, but he could not, and he let him go at his unrelaxing prayer. Who acts: Tsar, IVÁN, father. 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 79

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Tsar Výslav tried to keep Iván back, but he could not, and he let him go at his unrelaxing prayer.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, IVÁN, father · **What happens:** try, keep back, let, go, pray · **To what, where:** Iván, father, unrelaxing prayer

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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, IVÁN, father), 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:pg62509:10:79
# text = Tsar Výslav tried to keep Iván back, but he could not, and he let him go at his unrelaxing prayer.
1	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Výslav	Výslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	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	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	unrelaxing	unrelaxing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tsar *not said here* | Iván |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | IVÁN *= iván* | father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  | IVÁN's unrelaxing prayer |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at prayer=Location |
| 5 | **pray** |  | IVÁN *= iván* |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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