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title: Ilyá Múromets went to the city of Kíev straight from Chernígov on th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilyá Múromets went to the city of Kíev straight from Chernígov on the road by the village of Kutúzovo, which the Nightingale Robber had been oppressing for thirty years, not letting any man pass, whether on horseback or on foot, and assailing them not with any weapon, but only with his robber’s whis
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 75

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Ilyá Múromets went to the city of Kíev straight from Chernígov on the road by the village of Kutúzovo, which the Nightingale Robber had been oppressing for thirty years, not letting any man pass, whether on horseback or on foot, and assailing them not with any weapon, but only with his robber’s whistle.

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**Who acts:** Ilyá Múromets, village, man, robber · **What happens:** go, oppress, not let, pass, assail, whistle · **To what, where:** Chernígov, horseback, MÚROMETS

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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, village, man, robber), 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:pg62509:31:75
# text = Ilyá Múromets went to the city of Kíev straight from Chernígov on the road by the village of Kutúzovo, which the Nightingale Robber had been oppressing for thirty years, not letting any man pass, whether on horseback or on foot, and assailing them not with any weapon, but only with his robber’s whistle.
1	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Múromets	múromet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Chernígov	Chernígov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kutúzovo	Kutúzovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux	_	_
27	oppressing	oppress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	assailing	assail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
54	only	only	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	’s	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Ilyá Múromets |  |  | Chernígov |  | to the city of Kíev; on the road by the village of Kutúzovo; with man's robber's whistle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location from chernígov=Destination |
| 2 | **oppress** | past · perfect · progressive | the village of Kutúzovo |  |  |  | year | the Nightingale Robber *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **let** | gerund | the village of Kutúzovo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | infinitive | any man | horseback or foot |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horseback=Trajectory |
| 5 | **assail** | gerund | the village of Kutúzovo *not said here* | MÚROMETS *= múromet* |  |  |  | with any weapon | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **whistle** |  | man's robber |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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