--- title: Prince Vladímir came to meet the doughty youths and set them down at… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Vladímir came to meet the doughty youths and set them down at an oaken table, gave the doughty youths good food and drink, and then asked their news. Who acts: Vladímir. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vladímir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:20:35 # text = Prince Vladímir came to meet the doughty youths and set them down at an oaken table, gave the doughty youths good food and drink, and then asked their news. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Vladímir Vladímir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 doughty doughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 oaken oaken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 doughty doughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Vladímir Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Vladímir Prince *not said here* | the doughty youths | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Co-Agent | | 3 | **set down** | infinitive | Vladímir Prince *not said here* | youths *= youth* | | a oaken table | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at table=Destination | | 4 | **give** | past | Vladímir Prince *not said here* | the doughty youths and good food and drink | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | youths's news | | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/36/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/)