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description: At this time the Tsar was holding a mighty feast, and he bade the poor be summoned into the palace, bade them be fed sufficiently, and he bade the food of the poor men be taken into the Tsar’s palace and put into a special room. Who acts: Tsar, bade. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afana
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 99

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At this time the Tsar was holding a mighty feast, and he bade the poor be summoned into the palace, bade them be fed sufficiently, and he bade the food of the poor men be taken into the Tsar’s palace and put into a special room.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, bade · **What happens:** hold, bade, summon, feed, take, put · **To what, where:** mighty feast, poor, palace, men, food, special room

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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 (Tsar, bade), 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:pg62509:25:100
# text = At this time the Tsar was holding a mighty feast, and he bade the poor be summoned into the palace, bade them be fed sufficiently, and he bade the food of the poor men be taken into the Tsar’s palace and put into a special room.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · progressive | the Tsar | a mighty feast |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **bade** | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **summon** | infinitive · passive |  | the poor |  | the palace |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **feed** | infinitive · passive | bade *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  | sufficiently *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **bade** | past | Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive · passive |  | the food of the poor men |  | the Tsar's palace |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into palace=Destination |
| 7 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | a special room |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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