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title: So Iván landed, and the king’s attendants took Iván into the church… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Iván landed, and the king’s attendants took Iván into the church and locked it, and he began to read the Psalter. Who acts: Iván, attendants. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 110

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So Iván landed, and the king’s attendants took Iván into the church and locked it, and he began to read the Psalter.

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**Who acts:** Iván, attendants · **What happens:** land, take, lock, begin, read · **To what, where:** Iván, church, Psalter

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, attendants), 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:pg62509:21:110
# text = So Iván landed, and the king’s attendants took Iván into the church and locked it, and he began to read the Psalter.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Psalter	Psalter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | Iván |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the king's attendants | Iván |  | the church |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iván=Theme into church=Destination |
| 3 | **lock** | past | Iván *not said here* | church |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Iván |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **read** | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* | the Psalter |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic |

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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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