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title: The good youth bade these ambassadors be seized, had them cruelly an… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The good youth bade these ambassadors be seized, had them cruelly and savagely punished and sent them back to the Tsarévna, who was to come herself and ask for a reconciliation. Who acts: good youth bade, Tsarévna. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its depe
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 38

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The good youth bade these ambassadors be seized, had them cruelly and savagely punished and sent them back to the Tsarévna, who was to come herself and ask for a reconciliation.

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**Who acts:** good youth bade, Tsarévna · **What happens:** seize, punish, send back, come, ask · **To what, where:** ambassadors, good youth bade, Tsarévna, princess

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good youth bade, Tsarévna), 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:pg62509:8:38
# text = The good youth bade these ambassadors be seized, had them cruelly and savagely punished and sent them back to the Tsarévna, who was to come herself and ask for a reconciliation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	savagely	savagely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | infinitive · passive | the good youth bade *not said here* | this ambassadors |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **punish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the good youth bade |  |  |  | cruelly, savagely *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **send back** | past |  | ambassadors *= ambassador* | the Tsarévna |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to tsarévna=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | the Tsarévna | princess |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the Tsarévna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a reconciliation | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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