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title: _” Then they told the Emperor of this, and they summoned the poor ma… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _” Then they told the Emperor of this, and they summoned the poor man into the palace, and the Tsar began to inquire of him, “Acknowledge on oath, is this your boy?” Who acts: Tyátya, Tsar. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 36

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\_” Then they told the Emperor of this, and they summoned the poor man into the palace, and the Tsar began to inquire of him, “Acknowledge on oath, is this your boy?”

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**Who acts:** Tyátya, Tsar · **What happens:** tell, summon, begin, inquire, acknowledge, be · **To what, where:** Emperor, poor man, palace, oath, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tyátya, 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:pg62509:33:36
# text = _” Then they told the Emperor of this, and they summoned the poor man into the palace, and the Tsar began to inquire of him, “Acknowledge on oath, is this your boy?”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Tyátya |  | the Emperor of this |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient |
| 2 | **summon** *in a quote* | past | Tyátya |  | the poor man | the palace |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the Tsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient |
| 5 | **acknowledge** | infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* |  |  | oath |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | your boy |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | 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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