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title: So Ilyá Múromets changed into the beggar’s dress and rode straight b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ilyá Múromets changed into the beggar’s dress and rode straight back to the palace of the Prince, and cried out in a knightly voice: “Hail to thee, Prince of Kíev! give me, a wandering beggar, alms.” Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, Hail. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, pa
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 1

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So Ilyá Múromets changed into the beggar’s dress and rode straight back to the palace of the Prince, and cried out in a knightly voice: “Hail to thee, Prince of Kíev! give me, a wandering beggar, alms.”

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**Who acts:** Ilyá Múromets, Hail · **What happens:** change, ride, cry out, give, wonder · **To what, where:** dress, palace, knightly voice, wandering beggar, Ilyá Múromets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. 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, Hail), 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:pg62509:32:1
# text = So Ilyá Múromets changed into the beggar’s dress and rode straight back to the palace of the Prince, and cried out in a knightly voice: “Hail to thee, Prince of Kíev! give me, a wandering beggar, alms.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Múromets	múromet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	TO	_	32	case	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
38	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	amod	_	_
43	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Ilyá Múromets |  |  |  |  | into the beggar's dress *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dress=Result |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Ilyá Múromets *not said here* |  |  | the palace of the Prince |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Ilyá Múromets *not said here* |  |  | a knightly voice |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Hail to thee | a wandering beggar and alms | Ilyá Múromets *= múromet* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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