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description: And at that mighty host and fray, Ilyá Múromets was afraid, but he placed himself at the will of the Saviour, and thought how he would sacrifice his head for the Christian faith. Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, host. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependen
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 71

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And at that mighty host and fray, Ilyá Múromets was afraid, but he placed himself at the will of the Saviour, and thought how he would sacrifice his head for the Christian faith.

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**Who acts:** Ilyá Múromets, host · **What happens:** be, place, think, sacrifice · **To what, where:** mighty host, host, Saviour, head · **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 (Ilyá Múromets, host), 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:pg62509:31:71
# text = And at that mighty host and fray, Ilyá Múromets was afraid, but he placed himself at the will of the Saviour, and thought how he would sacrifice his head for the Christian faith.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fray	fray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Múromets	múromet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ilyá Múromets |  |  | that mighty host and fray |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **place** | past | host | host |  | the Saviour |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at saviour=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | host *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sacrifice** | would | host | host's head |  |  |  | for the Christian faith | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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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