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title: Just about then a decree was issued by the Tsar that his daughter, E… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just about then a decree was issued by the Tsar that his daughter, Eléna Tsarévna the Fair, had ordered a temple to be built for her, with twelve columns and twelve wreaths. Who acts: Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 106

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Just about then a decree was issued by the Tsar that his daughter, Eléna Tsarévna the Fair, had ordered a temple to be built for her, with twelve columns and twelve wreaths.

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** issue, order, build · **To what, where:** decree, temple

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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:pg62509:26:106
# text = Just about then a decree was issued by the Tsar that his daughter, Eléna Tsarévna the Fair, had ordered a temple to be built for her, with twelve columns and twelve wreaths.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past · passive | the Tsar | a decree |  |  | then | about *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past · perfect | the Tsar *not said here* | a temple |  |  |  | Father's daughter *advcl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive · passive | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Eléna; with twelve columns and twelve wreaths | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for she=Beneficiary |

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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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