Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 73

Shchepkin (in his work on "Russian Fable-lore," p. 109) says: "_Yaga_, instead of _yagaya_, means properly noisy, scolding, and must be connected with the root _yagat'_ = to brawl, to scold, still preserved in Siberia.

Who acts: Shchepkin, Yaga · What happens: say, mean, scold, connect, preserve, work · To what, where: yagat, Siberia, Russian Fable lore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shchepkin, Yaga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shchepkin	Shchepkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 work	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shchepkin	appos
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 lore	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lore	punct
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lore	amod
9	Fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lore	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Fable	punct
11	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shchepkin	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Shchepkin	punct
14	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
15	109	109	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 p.	flat
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 109	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Yaga	punct
21	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 means	nsubj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Yaga	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 yagaya	punct
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 yagaya	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 yagaya	punct
27	yagaya	yagaya	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Yaga	appos
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 yagaya	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Yaga	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	ccomp
31	properly	properly	ADV	_	32 noisy	advmod
32	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 scolding	punct
34	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 means	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 connected	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 connected	cc
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 connected	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 connected	aux:pass
39	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 means	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 root	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 root	det
42	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 connected	obl
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 yagat	punct
44	yagat	yagat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 connected	obl
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 yagat	punct
46	_	_	SYM	_	49 brawl	punct
47	=	=	SYM	_	49 brawl	punct
48	to	to	PART	_	49 brawl	mark
49	brawl	brawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 yagat	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 scold	punct
51	to	to	PART	_	52 scold	mark
52	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	49 brawl	parataxis
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 preserved	punct
54	still	still	ADV	_	55 preserved	advmod
55	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 scold	conj
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 Siberia	case
57	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 preserved	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Shchepkin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean in a quote	present	Yaga				noisy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	scold in a quote	gerund	Yaga not said here					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	connect in a quote	must · passive	Yaga not said here	yagat and brawl			with the root	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: with root=Co-Patient
5	scold in a quote	to-infinitive						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	preserve in a quote	participle			Siberia	still		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	work		Shchepkin		Russian Fable lore			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place

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.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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