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title: “My king and my father,” said the Tsarévich Evstáfi, “you are here w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “My king and my father,” said the Tsarévich Evstáfi, “you are here with the _boyárs_ to value these cases, what they are worth.” Who acts: king, you, cases. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 37

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“My king and my father,” said the Tsarévich Evstáfi, “you are here with the \_boyárs\_ to value these cases, what they are worth.”

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**Who acts:** king, you, cases · **What happens:** say, be, value · **To what, where:** cases · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, cases), 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:pg62509:18:37
# text = “My king and my father,” said the Tsarévich Evstáfi, “you are here with the _boyárs_ to value these cases, what they are worth.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Evstáfi	Evstáfi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	ccomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	value	value	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My king and my father |  |  |  |  | the Tsarévich Evstáfi *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with the boyárs; here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **value** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | My king and my father *not said here* | this cases |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cases *= case* |  |  |  |  | worth *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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