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title: _ The Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich is a very popular figure in the Russian… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich is a very popular figure in the Russian ballads; there are two of this name: Iván III. Who acts: Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich, two. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 30

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\_ The Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich is a very popular figure in the Russian ballads; there are two of this name: Iván III.

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**Who acts:** Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich, two · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular figure, Russian ballads

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich, two), 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:pg62509:40:30
# text = _ The Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich is a very popular figure in the Russian ballads; there are two of this name: Iván III.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Vasíl’evich	Vasíl'evich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Tsar Iván Vasíl’evich | a popular figure |  | the Russian ballads |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | two of this name |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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