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title: The name _Yaga Baba_, I take to be _yakaya baba_, _nycyakaya baba_,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The name _Yaga Baba_, I take to be _yakaya baba_, _nycyakaya baba_, and I render it by _anus quaedam_." Who acts: name, I. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 76

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The name \_Yaga Baba\_, I take to be \_yakaya baba\_, \_nycyakaya baba\_, and I render it by \_anus quaedam\_."

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**Who acts:** name, I · **What happens:** take, be, render · **To what, where:** yakaya baba, name

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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 (name, I), 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:pg22373:34:76
# text = The name _Yaga Baba_, I take to be _yakaya baba_, _nycyakaya baba_, and I render it by _anus quaedam_."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	yakaya	yakaya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	baba	baba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	nycyakaya	nycyakaya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	baba	baba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	render	render	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	anus	anus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	quaedam	quaedam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the name |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | yakaya baba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **render** | present | I | name |  |  |  | by anus quaedam | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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