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description: Some Slavonic philologists derive _yaga_ from a root meaning to eat (in Russian _yest'_). Who acts: Slavonic philologists, root. 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 cl
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 81

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Some Slavonic philologists derive \_yaga\_ from a root meaning to eat (in Russian \_yest'\_).

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**Who acts:** Slavonic philologists, root · **What happens:** derive, mean, eat · **To what, where:** yaga, Russian

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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 (Slavonic philologists, root), 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:pg22373:34:81
# text = Some Slavonic philologists derive _yaga_ from a root meaning to eat (in Russian _yest'_).
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	philologists	philologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	derive	derive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yaga	yaga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
11	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	yest	y	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present | some Slavonic philologists | yaga |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yaga=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a root *not said here* |  |  |  |  | y *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a root *not said here* | Russian |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent russian=Patient |

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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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