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title: Iván Tsarévich buried his parents, heeded their advice, and always t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Iván Tsarévich buried his parents, heeded their advice, and always took counsel with Katomá before undertaking any enterprise. 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 every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 6

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Iván Tsarévich buried his parents, heeded their advice, and always took counsel with Katomá before undertaking any enterprise.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** bury, heed, take, undertake · **To what, where:** parents, advice, counsel, enterprise

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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:pg62509:38:6
# text = Iván Tsarévich buried his parents, heeded their advice, and always took counsel with Katomá before undertaking any enterprise.
1	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	heeded	heed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | Iván | Iván's parents |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme |
| 2 | **heed** | past | Iván *not said here* | Tsar's advice |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Iván *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  | with Katomá; always *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 4 | **undertake** | gerund | Iván *not said here* | any enterprise |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=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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