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title: They had a son called Iván Tsarévich, and the son had an attendant w… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They had a son called Iván Tsarévich, and the son had an attendant who was called Katomá Dyádka[57] of the oaken-cap. Who acts: Tsar, son. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 2

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They had a son called Iván Tsarévich, and the son had an attendant who was called Katomá Dyádka\[57\] of the oaken-cap.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, son · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** son, attendant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, son), 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:pg62509:38:2
# text = They had a son called Iván Tsarévich, and the son had an attendant who was called Katomá Dyádka[57] of the oaken-cap.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	Dyádka	Dyádka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	57	57	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Tsar | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a son *not said here* |  |  |  | Iván *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the son | a attendant |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | a attendant |  |  |  | Katomá *xcomp*; 57 of the oaken cap *parataxis* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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