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title: Once again the Arab Prince collected a countless host, larger than b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once again the Arab Prince collected a countless host, larger than before, and he besieged the King from all sides, having three mighty knights standing in front. Who acts: Arab Prince, prince, three mighty knights. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its de
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 127

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Once again the Arab Prince collected a countless host, larger than before, and he besieged the King from all sides, having three mighty knights standing in front.

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**Who acts:** Arab Prince, prince, three mighty knights · **What happens:** collect, besiege, have, stand · **To what, where:** countless host, King, sides, three mighty knights, front

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab Prince, prince, three mighty knights), 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:pg62509:28:127
# text = Once again the Arab Prince collected a countless host, larger than before, and he besieged the King from all sides, having three mighty knights standing in front.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Arab	Arab	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past | the Arab Prince | a countless host |  |  | again |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme |
| 2 | **besiege** | past | prince | the King |  | all sides |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | prince *not said here* | three mighty knights |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | three mighty knights *not said here* |  |  | front |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |

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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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