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title: Very many were the hunters eager to become kinsmen of the King, and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Very many were the hunters eager to become kinsmen of the King, and all of their heads had been hewn off and hung on stakes. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 101

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Very many were the hunters eager to become kinsmen of the King, and all of their heads had been hewn off and hung on stakes.

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**What happens:** be, become, hewn off, hang · **To what, where:** many hunters, kinsmen, all, stakes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:6:101
# text = Very many were the hunters eager to become kinsmen of the King, and all of their heads had been hewn off and hung on stakes.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	hewn	hewn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	stakes	stake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the many hunters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive |  | kinsmen of the King |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hewn off** | past · perfect · passive |  | all of King's heads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | participle |  |  |  | stakes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stake=Location |

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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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