--- title: Shchepkin (in his work on "Russian Fable-lore," p. 109) says: "_Yaga… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Shchepkin (in his work on "Russian Fable-lore," p. 109) says: "_Yaga_, instead of _yagaya_, means properly noisy, scolding, and must be connected with the root _yagat'_ = to brawl, to scold, still preserved in Siberia. Who acts: Shchepkin, Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collectio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/) / 73 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 73 Shchepkin (in his work on "Russian Fable-lore," p. 109) says: "\_Yaga\_, instead of \_yagaya\_, means properly noisy, scolding, and must be connected with the root \_yagat'\_ = to brawl, to scold, still preserved in Siberia. **Who acts:** Shchepkin, Yaga · **What happens:** say, mean, scold, connect, preserve, work · **To what, where:** yagat, Siberia, Russian Fable lore · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Shchepkin, Yaga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:34:73 # text = Shchepkin (in his work on "Russian Fable-lore," p. 109) says: "_Yaga_, instead of _yagaya_, means properly noisy, scolding, and must be connected with the root _yagat'_ = to brawl, to scold, still preserved in Siberia. 1 Shchepkin Shchepkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 Fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 lore lore NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 14 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 109 109 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 yagaya yagaya NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 31 properly properly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 scolding scold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 yagat yagat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 _ _ SYM SYM _ 49 punct _ _ 47 = = SYM SYM _ 49 punct _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 brawl brawl NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 scold scold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 49 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 still still ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 preserved preserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 conj _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 Siberia Siberia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Shchepkin | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Yaga | | | | | noisy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scold** *in a quote* | gerund | Yaga *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **connect** *in a quote* | must · passive | Yaga *not said here* | yagat and brawl | | | | with the root | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: with root=Co-Patient | | 5 | **scold** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **preserve** *in a quote* | participle | | | | Siberia | still | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **work** | | Shchepkin | | | Russian Fable lore | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/74/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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