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title: And the main reason that they so called her was because Vasilísa Vas… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the main reason that they so called her was because Vasilísa Vasílyevna loved _vódka_—a custom ill-befitting a maid. Who acts: girls, main reason. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 46

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And the main reason that they so called her was because Vasilísa Vasílyevna loved \_vódka\_—a custom ill-befitting a maid.

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**Who acts:** girls, main reason · **What happens:** call, be, befit · **To what, where:** main reason, VASILÍSA · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, main reason), 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:pg62509:18:46
# text = And the main reason that they so called her was because Vasilísa Vasílyevna loved _vódka_—a custom ill-befitting a maid.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Vasílyevna	Vasílyevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	vódka	vódka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
20	custom	custom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | girls *= girl* | the main reason *not said here* | VASILÍSA *= vasilísa* |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the main reason |  |  |  |  | Vasilísa *nsubj*; a custom befitting maid *conj*; love *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **befit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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