--- title: As he entered, all the citizens of the city of Chernígov met him and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As he entered, all the citizens of the city of Chernígov met him and gave him honour, and the Prince and Duke of Chernígov himself came out to receive the doughty youth with honour and to give thanks to the Lord God for sending such unexpected succour to the city and not letting them all perish help --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/) / 73 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 73 As he entered, all the citizens of the city of Chernígov met him and gave him honour, and the Prince and Duke of Chernígov himself came out to receive the doughty youth with honour and to give thanks to the Lord God for sending such unexpected succour to the city and not letting them all perish helplessly before the mighty Saracen host. **Who acts:** host, citizens, Prince · **What happens:** enter, meet, give, come out, receive, send · **To what, where:** host, honour, doughty youth, thanks, Lord God, such unexpected succour 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 (host, citizens, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:31:73 # text = As he entered, all the citizens of the city of Chernígov met him and gave him honour, and the Prince and Duke of Chernígov himself came out to receive the doughty youth with honour and to give thanks to the Lord God for sending such unexpected succour to the city and not letting them all perish helplessly before the mighty Saracen host. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Chernígov Chernígov PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Chernígov Chernígov PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 nmod _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 29 out out ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 doughty doughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 40 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 for for SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 47 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 unexpected unexpected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 succour succour NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 55 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 conj _ _ 56 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 57 all all ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 perish perish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 xcomp _ _ 59 helplessly helplessly ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 60 before before ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 62 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 63 Saracen Saracen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | host | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | past | all citizens of the city of Chernígov | host | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **give** | past | all citizens of the city of Chernígov *not said here* | honour | host | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient honour=Theme | | 4 | **come out** | past | the Prince host and Duke of Chernígov | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the Prince host and Duke of Chernígov *not said here* | the doughty youth | | | | with honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | | 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | the Prince host and Duke of Chernígov *not said here* | thanks | the Lord God | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to god=Recipient | | 7 | **send** | gerund | the Prince host and Duke of Chernígov *not said here* | such unexpected succour | | the city | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent succour=Theme to city=Destination | | 8 | **not** **let** | gerund | the Prince host and Duke of Chernígov *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **perish** | present | citizens *= citizen* | | | | before the mighty Saracen host | all, helplessly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/)