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description: So the Tsar summoned all the _boyárs_ and the senators from every part of the kingdom to show them the youth, but none of them acknowledged that he was the father. Who acts: Tsar, none, boy. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 29

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So the Tsar summoned all the \_boyárs\_ and the senators from every part of the kingdom to show them the youth, but none of them acknowledged that he was the father.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, none, boy · **What happens:** summon, show, acknowledge, be · **To what, where:** boyárs, part, father

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, none, boy), 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:pg62509:33:29
# text = So the Tsar summoned all the _boyárs_ and the senators from every part of the kingdom to show them the youth, but none of them acknowledged that he was the father.
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	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | the Tsar | all boyárs and the senators |  | every part of the kingdom |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyár=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | boyárs *= boyár* |  |  |  | the youth *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient youth=Topic |
| 3 | **acknowledge** | past | none of boyárs |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | boy | the father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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