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title: They are sending me to Bába Yagá for fire, and the Bába Yagá will ea… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They are sending me to Bába Yagá for fire, and the Bába Yagá will eat me up.” Who acts: meat, Bába Yagá. 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 82

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They are sending me to Bába Yagá for fire, and the Bába Yagá will eat me up.”

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**Who acts:** meat, Bába Yagá · **What happens:** send, eat up · **To what, where:** me

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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 (meat, Bába Yagá), 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:pg62509:14:82
# text = They are sending me to Bába Yagá for fire, and the Bába Yagá will eat me up.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present · progressive | meat |  | me |  |  | to Bába; for fire | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bába=Destination |
| 2 | **eat up** | future | the Bába Yagá | me |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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