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title: So the Tsar looked for Nikíta, and went to him himself to beg him to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Tsar looked for Nikíta, and went to him himself to beg him to release the land from the cruelty of the dragon and redeem the princess. Who acts: Tsar. 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 26

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So the Tsar looked for Nikíta, and went to him himself to beg him to release the land from the cruelty of the dragon and redeem the princess.

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**Who acts:** Tsar · **What happens:** look, go, beg, release, redeem · **To what, where:** NIKÍTA, land, cruelty, princess

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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 (Tsar), 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:pg62509:32:26
# text = So the Tsar looked for Nikíta, and went to him himself to beg him to release the land from the cruelty of the dragon and redeem the princess.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Nikíta	Nikíta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Tsar |  |  |  |  | for Nikíta | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nikíta=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Tsar *not said here* | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* |  | NIKÍTA *= nikíta* |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **release** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | the land |  | the cruelty of the dragon |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer land=Source |
| 5 | **redeem** | infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |

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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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