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title: Heavy are the tasks which the Bába Yagá has given me, and she threat… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Heavy are the tasks which the Bába Yagá has given me, and she threatens to eat me up if I don’t carry them all out. Who acts: Heavy, Yagá, I. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 122

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Heavy are the tasks which the Bába Yagá has given me, and she threatens to eat me up if I don’t carry them all out.

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**Who acts:** Heavy, Yagá, I · **What happens:** be, give, threaten, eat up, not carry out · **To what, where:** tasks, Bába Yagá, me, kvas

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavy, Yagá, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:14:122
# text = Heavy are the tasks which the Bába Yagá has given me, and she threatens to eat me up if I don’t carry them all out.
1	Heavy	heavy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Heavy | the tasks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Bába Yagá | me |  |  | the tasks *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **threaten** | present | Yagá |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Yagá *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **carry out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | kvas |  |  |  | out *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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