--- title: So they were as guests and junketed well, and arrived into their own… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they were as guests and junketed well, and arrived into their own kingdom, reached it and began to live a life of joy enduring and to drink good mead. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/107/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/) / 107 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 107 So they were as guests and junketed well, and arrived into their own kingdom, reached it and began to live a life of joy enduring and to drink good mead. **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** be, junket, arrive, reach, begin, live · **To what, where:** own kingdom, kingdom, life, good mead This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg62509:24:107 # text = So they were as guests and junketed well, and arrived into their own kingdom, reached it and began to live a life of joy enduring and to drink good mead. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 junketed junket VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 enduring endure VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 mead mead NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | as guests | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **junket** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **arrive** | past | | | | brothers's own kingdom | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **reach** | past | | kingdom | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | | a life of joy | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 7 | **endure** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **drink** | to-infinitive | | good mead | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient | 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/108/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/)