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title: The valiant champion met on his way the mighty knight Svyatogór; and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The valiant champion met on his way the mighty knight Svyatogór; and the good youth was afraid of him; the old Cossack, Ilyá Múromets, was afraid of Svyatogór the knight. Who acts: valiant champion, old Cossack. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its depend
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 3

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The valiant champion met on his way the mighty knight Svyatogór; and the good youth was afraid of him; the old Cossack, Ilyá Múromets, was afraid of Svyatogór the knight.

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**Who acts:** valiant champion, old Cossack · **What happens:** meet, be · **To what, where:** valiant champion, way

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valiant champion, old Cossack), 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:pg62509:16:3
# text = The valiant champion met on his way the mighty knight Svyatogór; and the good youth was afraid of him; the old Cossack, Ilyá Múromets, was afraid of Svyatogór the knight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Svyatogór	Svyatogór	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Svyatogór	Svyatogór	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | participle |  | the valiant champion *not said here* |  | Iván's way  the mighty knight |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the valiant champion |  |  |  |  | of Iván; the good youth *nsubj*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old Cossack |  |  |  |  | of Svyatogór; the knight *nsubj*; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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