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title: And in return the Prince honoured Ilyá Múromets, praised him highly,… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And in return the Prince honoured Ilyá Múromets, praised him highly, and placed him amongst the mighty knights of his court. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 13

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And in return the Prince honoured Ilyá Múromets, praised him highly, and placed him amongst the mighty knights of his court.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** honour, praise, place · **To what, where:** Ilyá Múromets, return, Prince

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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 (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:pg62509:32:13
# text = And in return the Prince honoured Ilyá Múromets, praised him highly, and placed him amongst the mighty knights of his court.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	honoured	honour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** | past | the Prince | Ilyá Múromets |  | return |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | past | the Prince *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past | the Prince *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  | amongst the mighty knights of Prince's court | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme amongst knight=Destination |

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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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