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title: Both were very energetic rulers who enlarged the domain of Moscow an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Both were very energetic rulers who enlarged the domain of Moscow and curbed the power of the territorial nobility. Who acts: Both, energetic rulers. 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 32

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Both were very energetic rulers who enlarged the domain of Moscow and curbed the power of the territorial nobility.

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**Who acts:** Both, energetic rulers · **What happens:** be, enlarge, curb · **To what, where:** energetic rulers, domain, power

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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 (Both, energetic rulers), 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:pg62509:40:32
# text = Both were very energetic rulers who enlarged the domain of Moscow and curbed the power of the territorial nobility.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	energetic	energetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	curbed	curb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	nobility	nobility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Both | energetic rulers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enlarge** | past | energetic rulers | the domain of Moscow |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent domain=Patient |
| 3 | **curb** | past | energetic rulers *not said here* | the power of the territorial nobility |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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