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title: And he took Márya Moryévna from him, took her away, and Iván Tsarévi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he took Márya Moryévna from him, took her away, and Iván Tsarévich sat on the stone and cried. Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 126

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And he took Márya Moryévna from him, took her away, and Iván Tsarévich sat on the stone and cried.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** take, take away, sit, cry · **To what, where:** Márya Moryévna, wife, stone

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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:pg62509:23:126
# text = And he took Márya Moryévna from him, took her away, and Iván Tsarévich sat on the stone and cried.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Márya	Márya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Moryévna	Moryévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Iván | Márya Moryévna |  |  |  | from Moryévna | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent moryévna=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take away** | past | Iván *not said here* | wife |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Iván |  |  | the stone |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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