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title: So the Sea Tsar galloped back to his own kingdom under the seas, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Sea Tsar galloped back to his own kingdom under the seas, and Vasilísa the Wise with Iván Tsarévich waited a while and then returned to Sacred Russia. Who acts: Sea Tsar, Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 127

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So the Sea Tsar galloped back to his own kingdom under the seas, and Vasilísa the Wise with Iván Tsarévich waited a while and then returned to Sacred Russia.

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**Who acts:** Sea Tsar, Iván · **What happens:** gallop back, wait, return · **To what, where:** own kingdom, Sacred Russia

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Tsar, Iván), 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:pg62509:30:127
# text = So the Sea Tsar galloped back to his own kingdom under the seas, and Vasilísa the Wise with Iván Tsarévich waited a while and then returned to Sacred Russia.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	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 | **gallop back** | past | the Sea Tsar |  |  | Tsar's own kingdom under the seas |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | past | Iván |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | Iván *not said here* |  | Sacred Russia |  | then |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to russia=Result |

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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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