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title: The Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába Yagá, went to the spot she named… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába Yagá, went to the spot she named on the seashore, and he hid himself behind the bushes. Who acts: Tsarévich bade farewell, farewell, Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 8

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The Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába Yagá, went to the spot she named on the seashore, and he hid himself behind the bushes.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévich bade farewell, farewell, Tsarévich · **What happens:** go, name, hide · **To what, where:** spot, seashore, Tsarévich, bushes

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich bade farewell, farewell, Tsarévich), 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:pg62509:30:8
# text = The Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába Yagá, went to the spot she named on the seashore, and he hid himself behind the bushes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Tsarévich bade farewell to Bába |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle | farewell | the spot *not said here* |  | the seashore |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Tsarévich | Tsarévich |  | the bushes |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind bush=Location |

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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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