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description: The henchmen sallied out of the Tsar’s courtyard, and asked them: “What sort of people are you? Who acts: henchmen, sort. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 32

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The henchmen sallied out of the Tsar’s courtyard, and asked them: “What sort of people are you?

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**Who acts:** henchmen, sort · **What happens:** sally, ask, be, sort · **To what, where:** courtyard, henchmen, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henchmen, sort), 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:pg62509:12:32
# text = The henchmen sallied out of the Tsar’s courtyard, and asked them: “What sort of people are you?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sally** | past | the henchmen |  |  | the Tsar's courtyard |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | henchmen *= henchman* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | what sort of people | henchmen *= henchman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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