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title: In that kingdom there was a custom that all merchants who arrived sh… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In that kingdom there was a custom that all merchants who arrived should bring some of all their wares as a homage to the king. Who acts: custom, merchants. 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 84

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In that kingdom there was a custom that all merchants who arrived should bring some of all their wares as a homage to the king.

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**Who acts:** custom, merchants · **What happens:** be, arrive, bring · **To what, where:** kingdom, custom

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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 (custom, merchants), 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:pg62509:21:84
# text = In that kingdom there was a custom that all merchants who arrived should bring some of all their wares as a homage to the king.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a custom |  |  | that kingdom; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | all merchants |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | should | all merchants | a custom |  |  |  | as a homage; to the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination some=Theme |

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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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