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title: Iván Tsarévich read this inscription, and he went to the right, beth… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iván Tsarévich read this inscription, and he went to the right, bethinking himself, if his horse were to be slain, anyhow he would remain alive. Who acts: Iván, IVÁN, horse. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 86

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Iván Tsarévich read this inscription, and he went to the right, bethinking himself, if his horse were to be slain, anyhow he would remain alive.

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**Who acts:** Iván, IVÁN, horse · **What happens:** read, go, bethink, be, remain · **To what, where:** inscription, right, IVÁN

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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 (Iván, IVÁN, horse), 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:pg62509:10:86
# text = Iván Tsarévich read this inscription, and he went to the right, bethinking himself, if his horse were to be slain, anyhow he would remain alive.
1	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bethinking	bethink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	anyhow	anyhow	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | Iván | this inscription |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | IVÁN *= iván* |  |  | the right |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to right=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bethink** | gerund | IVÁN *= iván* *not said here* | IVÁN *= iván* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | word's horse |  |  |  |  | slain *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | would | horse |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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