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title: “Why, you sorry jade, are you stumbling, or is it some evil thing wh… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, you sorry jade, are you stumbling, or is it some evil thing which you fear?” Who acts: you, jade. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 3

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“Why, you sorry jade, are you stumbling, or is it some evil thing which you fear?”

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**Who acts:** you, jade · **What happens:** stumble, be, fear · **To what, where:** evil thing

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, jade), 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:pg62509:24:3
# text = “Why, you sorry jade, are you stumbling, or is it some evil thing which you fear?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | jade | some evil thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | you | some evil thing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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