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title: “Very well; summon all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, all the Kings and K… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Very well; summon all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, all the Kings and Korolévichi, to see us wage an honourable holmgang to win your daughter.” Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 76

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“Very well; summon all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, all the Kings and Korolévichi, to see us wage an honourable holmgang to win your daughter.”

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** summon, see, wage, win · **To what, where:** Tsars, us, honourable holmgang, daughter

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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 (you, us), 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:pg62509:33:76
# text = “Very well; summon all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, all the Kings and Korolévichi, to see us wage an honourable holmgang to win your daughter.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	summon	summon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tsars	tsar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Tsarévichi	Tsarévichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Korolévichi	Korolévichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	wage	wage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	honourable	honourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	holmgang	holmgang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | all Tsars and Tsarévichi and all Kings and Korolévichi |  |  |  | well *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wage** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | a honourable holmgang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | your daughter |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |

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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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