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title: Then they were both very glad, and said, “Now we are healthy, we wil… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they were both very glad, and said, “Now we are healthy, we will again talk of our own rights; but we must first settle our account with Bába Yagá. Who acts: legs, we, our. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 40

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Then they were both very glad, and said, “Now we are healthy, we will again talk of our own rights; but we must first settle our account with Bába Yagá.

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**Who acts:** legs, we, our · **What happens:** be, say, talk, settle, account · **To what, where:** account · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, we, our), 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:pg62509:39:40
# text = Then they were both very glad, and said, “Now we are healthy, we will again talk of our own rights; but we must first settle our account with Bába Yagá.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	advmod	_	_
30	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  |  | then | both, glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | legs *= leg* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  | now | healthy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  | again | of our own rights | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **settle** *in a quote* | must | we | our account |  |  |  | with Bába; first *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent account=Theme with bába=Location |
| 6 | **account** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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