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description: So he approached her again and said, “_Bábushka_,[8] little dove, forgive me: this is my trouble. Who acts: DANÍLO, this. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

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So he approached her again and said, “\_Bábushka\_,\[8\] little dove, forgive me: this is my trouble.

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**Who acts:** DANÍLO, this · **What happens:** approach, say, forgive, be · **To what, where:** woman, Bábushka, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DANÍLO, this), 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:pg62509:4:34
# text = So he approached her again and said, “_Bábushka_,[8] little dove, forgive me: this is my trouble.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Bábushka	Bábushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
20	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* | woman |  |  | again |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | DANÍLO *= danílo* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **forgive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Bábushka |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | my trouble |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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