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title: Once in the famous city of Múrom[47] in the village of Karachárovo,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once in the famous city of Múrom[47] in the village of Karachárovo, a peasant lived who was called Iván Timoféyevich; he had one beloved son, Ilyá Múromets. Who acts: peasant. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 53

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Once in the famous city of Múrom\[47\] in the village of Karachárovo, a peasant lived who was called Iván Timoféyevich; he had one beloved son, Ilyá Múromets.

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**Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** live, call, have · **To what, where:** one beloved son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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:pg62509:31:53
# text = Once in the famous city of Múrom[47] in the village of Karachárovo, a peasant lived who was called Iván Timoféyevich; he had one beloved son, Ilyá Múromets.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Múrom	Múrom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Karachárovo	Karachárovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	Timoféyevich	Timoféyevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a peasant |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass*; Iván *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | peasant | one beloved son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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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