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title: So the princes and _boyárs_ decided that she must marry the Tsarévich. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the princes and _boyárs_ decided that she must marry the Tsarévich. Who acts: princes, Anna. 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 34

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So the princes and \_boyárs\_ decided that she must marry the Tsarévich.

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**Who acts:** princes, Anna · **What happens:** decide, marry · **To what, where:** Tsarévich

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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 (princes, Anna), 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:pg62509:38:35
# text = So the princes and _boyárs_ decided that she must marry the Tsarévich.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	boyárs	boyár	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
8	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | the princes and boyárs |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **marry** | must | Anna | the Tsarévich |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarévich=Patient |

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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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