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title: Then all the royal _boyárs_ ran up, took the doughty youth into thei… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all the royal _boyárs_ ran up, took the doughty youth into their hands and led him into the palace. Who acts: royal boyárs. 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 81

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Then all the royal \_boyárs\_ ran up, took the doughty youth into their hands and led him into the palace.

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**Who acts:** royal boyárs · **What happens:** run up, take, lead · **To what, where:** doughty youth, hands, youth, palace

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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 (royal boyárs), 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:pg62509:33:81
# text = Then all the royal _boyárs_ ran up, took the doughty youth into their hands and led him into the palace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	doughty	doughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | past | all royal boyárs |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | all royal boyárs *not said here* | the doughty youth |  | boyárs's hands |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme into hand=Destination |
| 3 | **lead** | past | all royal boyárs *not said here* | youth |  | the palace |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=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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