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title: Bába Yagá made a tremendous stir and cried out to her mares: “Why di… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Bába Yagá made a tremendous stir and cried out to her mares: “Why did you come back?” Who acts: Bába, you. 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 78

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Bába Yagá made a tremendous stir and cried out to her mares: “Why did you come back?”

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**Who acts:** Bába, you · **What happens:** make, cry out, come back · **To what, where:** tremendous stir, mares · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bába, you), 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:pg62509:24:78
# text = Bába Yagá made a tremendous stir and cried out to her mares: “Why did you come back?”
1	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Bába | a tremendous stir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Bába *not said here* |  | Iván's mares |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mare=Recipient |
| 3 | **come back** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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