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title: Then all the princes and knights and the _boyárs_ assembled together… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all the princes and knights and the _boyárs_ assembled together to fight the monster, and amongst them Dyád’ka. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 133

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Then all the princes and knights and the \_boyárs\_ assembled together to fight the monster, and amongst them Dyád’ka.

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**What happens:** assemble, fight · **To what, where:** monster, princes

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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: 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:pg62509:17:133
# text = Then all the princes and knights and the _boyárs_ assembled together to fight the monster, and amongst them Dyád’ka.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
12	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
22	Dyád’ka	Dyád'ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Co-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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