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title: 588), "As regards the word _yaga_ (_yega_, Polish _jedza_, _jadza_,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: 588), "As regards the word _yaga_ (_yega_, Polish _jedza_, _jadza_, _jedzi-baba_, Slovak, _jenzi_, _jenzi_, _jezi-baba_, Bohemian, _jezinka_, Galician _yazya_) it answers to the Sanskrit _ahi_ = snake." Who acts: 588, yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lo
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 72

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588), "As regards the word \_yaga\_ (\_yega\_, Polish \_jedza\_, \_jadza\_, \_jedzi-baba\_, Slovak, \_jenzi\_, \_jenzi\_, \_jezi-baba\_, Bohemian, \_jezinka\_, Galician \_yazya\_) it answers to the Sanskrit \_ahi\_ = snake."

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**Who acts:** 588, yaga · **What happens:** regard, answer · **To what, where:** word, snake

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (588, yaga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:34:72
# text = 588), "As regards the word _yaga_ (_yega_, Polish _jedza_, _jadza_, _jedzi-baba_, Slovak, _jenzi_, _jenzi_, _jezi-baba_, Bohemian, _jezinka_, Galician _yazya_) it answers to the Sanskrit _ahi_ = snake."
1	588	588	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	regards	regard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	yaga	yaga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	yega	yega	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	jedza	jedza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	jadza	jadza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	jedzi	jedzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	baba	baba	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Slovak	Slovak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	jenzi	jenzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	jenzi	jenzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	jezi	jezi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	baba	baba	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Bohemian	Bohemian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	jezinka	jezinka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	Galician	Galician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
55	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	yazya	yazya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	ahi	ahi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	68	punct	_	_
67	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	68	punct	_	_
68	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	68	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** *in a quote* | present | 588 | the word |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | yaga | snake |  |  |  | to the Sanskrit and ahi | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to sanskrit=Co-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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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