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title: There an old woman sat. “Hail, _bábushka_!” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There an old woman sat. “Hail, _bábushka_!” A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 34

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There an old woman sat. “Hail, \_bábushka\_!”

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**To what, where:** There

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg62509:19:34
# text = There an old woman sat. “Hail, _bábushka_!”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bábushka	bábushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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