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title: So Iván Tsarévich called Katomá, and said: “Come into the stable and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Iván Tsarévich called Katomá, and said: “Come into the stable and command the grooms to bring the horse out; ride it, and to-morrow I will go to church on it.” Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 53

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So Iván Tsarévich called Katomá, and said: “Come into the stable and command the grooms to bring the horse out; ride it, and to-morrow I will go to church on it.”

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** call, say, come, command, bring out, ride · **To what, where:** Katomá, stable, grooms, horse, morrow · **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 (Iván), 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:pg62509:38:54
# text = So Iván Tsarévich called Katomá, and said: “Come into the stable and command the grooms to bring the horse out; ride it, and to-morrow I will go to church on it.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Iván | Katomá |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **command** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the grooms |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent groom=Theme |
| 5 | **bring out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 6 | **ride** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | horse |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | future | Iván |  |  | morrow |  | to church; on horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location to church=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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