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title: “From Múrom by the city of Chernígov, and under the walls of Cherníg… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “From Múrom by the city of Chernígov, and under the walls of Chernígov I routed a Saracen host too many to count, and I relieved the city of Chernígov. Who acts: Múrom, Prince. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 98

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“From Múrom by the city of Chernígov, and under the walls of Chernígov I routed a Saracen host too many to count, and I relieved the city of Chernígov.

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**Who acts:** Múrom, Prince · **What happens:** rout, count, relieve · **To what, where:** Saracen host, city

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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 (Múrom, Prince), 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:pg62509:31:98
# text = “From Múrom by the city of Chernígov, and under the walls of Chernígov I routed a Saracen host too many to count, and I relieved the city of Chernígov.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Múrom	Múrom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Chernígov	Chernígov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Chernígov	Chernígov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	routed	rout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Saracen	Saracen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	relieved	relieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Chernígov	Chernígov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rout** *in a quote* | past | Múrom by the city of Chernígov under the walls of Chernígov | a Saracen host |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Múrom by the city of Chernígov under the walls of Chernígov *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **relieve** *in a quote* | past | the Prince *= prince* | the city of Chernígov |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus city=Experiencer |

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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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