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title: He assembled all the _boyárs_, generals, and senators to pronounce t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He assembled all the _boyárs_, generals, and senators to pronounce the Queen’s doom, whether she should have her head cut off, or should be merely banished. Who acts: Woodsprite, wife, head, Queen. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 64

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He assembled all the \_boyárs\_, generals, and senators to pronounce the Queen’s doom, whether she should have her head cut off, or should be merely banished.

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**Who acts:** Woodsprite, wife, head, Queen · **What happens:** assemble, pronounce, have, cut off, banish, doom · **To what, where:** boyárs, doom, head

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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 (Woodsprite, wife, head, Queen), 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:pg62509:17:64
# text = He assembled all the _boyárs_, generals, and senators to pronounce the Queen’s doom, whether she should have her head cut off, or should be merely banished.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | Woodsprite | all boyárs and generals |  |  |  | senators *obl* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boyár=Theme |
| 2 | **pronounce** | to-infinitive | Woodsprite *not said here* | the Queen's doom |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | should | wife | wife's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut off** | participle | wife's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **banish** | should · passive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **doom** |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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