Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 157

“You see, I am placed here in order to turn these mountains round; and when I have done with the last of them then I must die.”

Who acts: You, Vertodúb · What happens: see, place, turn, do, die · To what, where: Vertodúb, order, mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Vertodúb), 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	_	3 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 placed	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 see	ccomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 placed	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 turn	mark
12	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 placed	advcl
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 mountains	det
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turn	obj
15	round	round	ADV	_	12 turn	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 done	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 done	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 see	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 last	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 last	det
24	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 last	nmod
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 die	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 die	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 die	aux
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 done	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	place in a quote	present · passive		Vertodúb	order; here			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in order=Destination
3	turn in a quote	to-infinitive		this mountains			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
4	do in a quote	present · perfect	Vertodúb				with the last of mountains	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die in a quote	must	Vertodúb			then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 157

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 157