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title: Then Prince Vladímir asked the doughty youths, “Who are ye, doughty… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Prince Vladímir asked the doughty youths, “Who are ye, doughty youths? Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 37

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Then Prince Vladímir asked the doughty youths, “Who are ye, doughty youths?

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** doughty youths, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg62509:20:37
# text = Then Prince Vladímir asked the doughty youths, “Who are ye, doughty youths?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	doughty	doughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	doughty	doughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Prince | the doughty youths |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | ye |  |  |  | Who *nsubj*; doughty youths *conj* | 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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