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title: “Oh, they say that a new Tsar has come on the throne and has issued… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, they say that a new Tsar has come on the throne and has issued a new _úkaz_ that wives are to command their husbands!” Who acts: audiences, new Tsar, wives. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 132

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“Oh, they say that a new Tsar has come on the throne and has issued a new \_úkaz\_ that wives are to command their husbands!”

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**Who acts:** audiences, new Tsar, wives · **What happens:** say, come, issue, be · **To what, where:** throne, new úkaz \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (audiences, new Tsar, wives), 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:pg62509:25:133
# text = “Oh, they say that a new Tsar has come on the throne and has issued a new _úkaz_ that wives are to command their husbands!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	úkaz	úkaz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | audiences *= audience* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a new Tsar |  |  | the throne |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on throne=Location |
| 3 | **issue** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a new Tsar *not said here* | a new úkaz \_ |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location \_=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wives | a new úkaz \_ *not said here* |  |  |  | a new úkaz \_ *obj*; audiences's husbands *obj*; command *property* | 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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