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title: She humbly prayed God, crossed herself as is ordained, bowed to all… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She humbly prayed God, crossed herself as is ordained, bowed to all four sides, and greeted Tsar Bárkhat friendlywise, and with him entered the palace. Who acts: Tsar. 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 57

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She humbly prayed God, crossed herself as is ordained, bowed to all four sides, and greeted Tsar Bárkhat friendlywise, and with him entered the palace.

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** pray, cross, ordain, bow, greet, enter · **To what, where:** God, Tsar, Tsar friendlywise, palace

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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 (Tsar), 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:pg62509:18:57
# text = She humbly prayed God, crossed herself as is ordained, bowed to all four sides, and greeted Tsar Bárkhat friendlywise, and with him entered the palace.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	friendlywise	friendlywise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
27	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | Tsar | God |  |  |  | humbly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | past | Tsar *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 3 | **ordain** | present · passive | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **bow** | participle | Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to all four sides | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme |
| 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past |  | Tsar friendlywise |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendlywise=Theme |
| 6 | **enter** | past |  | the palace |  |  |  | with God | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |

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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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