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title: There was the Yagá-Búra again, and offering him an apple. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was the Yagá-Búra again, and offering him an apple. Who acts: Yagá Búra. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 144

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There was the Yagá-Búra again, and offering him an apple.

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**Who acts:** Yagá Búra · **What happens:** be, offer · **To what, where:** apple, Búra

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yagá Búra), 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:pg62509:27:144
# text = There was the Yagá-Búra again, and offering him an apple.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Búra	Búra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the Yagá Búra |  |  | there | again |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund | the Yagá Búra *not said here* | a apple | Búra |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal apple=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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