Emotional predicates ‘rejoice’ and ‘have fun’ in ancient Russian texts of potestar semantics

Statement of the problem. The article examines emotional predicates with the semantics of joy and fun (primarily spiritual one). The purpose of the article is to analyze predicates with emotional semantics showing the inner life of the ruler and his enemies in ancient Russian texts about power, primarily in the Tale of Bygone Years, in the texts of Tales of the Time of Troubles, etc. The authors have reviewed the scientific literature on the problem. Scribes express an ethical assessment of subjects of ancient Russian power who experience certain feelings and emotional states. The contexts with the lexemes radovati (sya) and veseliti (sya), nominal predicates based on the roots ‘-rad-‘ and ‘-vesel-‘ are revealed. The types of syntactic relations of predicates of the emotional plane are characterized. As a result of the research, conclusions were drawn about the ways of expressing the emotional content of the spiritual world of the ruling persons of Ancient Russia, about the types of interaction of predicative blocks within the utterance. The authors’ contribution to the study of the problem of representation of government representatives in texts and, in general, the study of the potestar area of the social space of Ancient Russia is evaluated through the prism of their own methodology for analyzing the vocabulary of potestar texts and their syntactic structure in conjunction with the semantics of the described personages.