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title: Tsar Dolmát for such a joy bade a feast be prepared, and they sat at… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tsar Dolmát for such a joy bade a feast be prepared, and they sat at the oaken tables by the chequered table-cloths, and they ate, drank and made merry for two days. Who acts: Tsar, cheeks. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 38

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Tsar Dolmát for such a joy bade a feast be prepared, and they sat at the oaken tables by the chequered table-cloths, and they ate, drank and made merry for two days.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, cheeks · **What happens:** be, sit, chequer, eat, drink, make · **To what, where:** oaken tables

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, cheeks), 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:pg62509:11:38
# text = Tsar Dolmát for such a joy bade a feast be prepared, and they sat at the oaken tables by the chequered table-cloths, and they ate, drank and made merry for two days.
1	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Dolmát	Dolmát	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	chequered	chequer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Tsar for such joy bade |  |  |  |  | a feast *nsubj*; prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | cheeks *= cheek* |  |  | the oaken tables |  | by the chequered table cloths | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 3 | **chequer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | past | cheeks *= cheek* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | past | cheeks *= cheek* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | past | cheeks *= cheek* *not said here* |  |  |  | day | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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