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title: And he issued a decree throughout his land, summoned the _boyárs_ an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he issued a decree throughout his land, summoned the _boyárs_ and knights together, and promised any who would slay the seven-headed monster half of his wealth and half his realm, and also his daughter as his wife. Who acts: monster. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 132

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And he issued a decree throughout his land, summoned the \_boyárs\_ and knights together, and promised any who would slay the seven-headed monster half of his wealth and half his realm, and also his daughter as his wife.

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**Who acts:** monster · **What happens:** issue, summon, promise, slay, head · **To what, where:** decree, boyárs, any, headed monster half

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster), 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:pg62509:17:132
# text = And he issued a decree throughout his land, summoned the _boyárs_ and knights together, and promised any who would slay the seven-headed monster half of his wealth and half his realm, and also his daughter as his wife.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	also	also	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past | monster | a decree |  |  | throughout monster's land |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decree=Theme |
| 2 | **summon** | past | monster *not said here* | the boyárs and knights |  |  |  | together *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyár=Recipient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | monster *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 4 | **slay** | would |  | the headed monster half of monster's wealth and monster's realm and monster's daughter |  |  |  | as monster's wife; who *nsubj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 5 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | seven *compound* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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