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title: “What is the matter with you? why are you weeping, _bátyushka_?” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What is the matter with you? why are you weeping, _bátyushka_?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 6

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“What is the matter with you? why are you weeping, \_bátyushka\_?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, weep · **To what, where:** matter, bátyushka

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg62509:34:6
# text = “What is the matter with you? why are you weeping, _bátyushka_?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bátyushka	bátyushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the matter |  |  |  | with you; What *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | bátyushka |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bátyushka=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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