Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 147
“You must pierce the heels of the bride and bridegroom and pour the blood again into the wounds, their own blood into each.
Who acts: You · What happens: pierce, pour · To what, where: heels, blood, wounds
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pierce | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pierce | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pierce | aux |
| 4 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heels | det |
| 6 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pierce | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bride | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heels | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bridegroom | cc |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bride | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pour | cc |
| 13 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pierce | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blood | det |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pour | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 pour | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wounds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wounds | det |
| 19 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pour | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blood | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 blood | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blood | amod |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wounds | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 blood | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pierce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce in a quote | must | You | the heels of the bride and bridegroom | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pour in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | the blood | the wounds and bride's own blood into each | again | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme into wound=Destination |
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 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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