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title: “The scions of kings are not slain, and are not put in prison; they… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The scions of kings are not slain, and are not put in prison; they are sent out into the white world to meet whatever fate God may send them.” Who acts: whatever. 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 69

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“The scions of kings are not slain, and are not put in prison; they are sent out into the white world to meet whatever fate God may send them.”

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**Who acts:** whatever · **What happens:** not slay, not put, send out, meet, fate, send · **To what, where:** scions, prison, white world, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (whatever), 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:pg62509:17:69
# text = “The scions of kings are not slain, and are not put in prison; they are sent out into the white world to meet whatever fate God may send them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scions	scion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fate	fate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **slay** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the scions of kings |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  | prison |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in prison=Destination |
| 3 | **send out** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | scions *= scion* |  | the white world |  | out *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fate** *in a quote* | present | whatever | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** *in a quote* | may |  | scions *= scion* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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