Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 67

But you pretend to be ill, and when your husband comes back tell him, ‘I saw in my sleep that the throat of our foal must be cut and the liver extracted, and I must be rubbed with the liver; then my disease will pass away.’”

Who acts: you, husband, I, liver, disease, my · What happens: pretend, be, come back, tell, see, cut · To what, where: husband, sleep, throat, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband, I, liver), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 pretend	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pretend	nsubj
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 ill	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretend	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 comes	mark
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretend	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sleep	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sleep	nmod:poss
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 cut	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 throat	det
25	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 foal	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 foal	nmod:poss
28	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throat	nmod
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cut	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 cut	aux:pass
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 saw	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 extracted	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 liver	det
34	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 extracted	nsubj
35	extracted	extract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cut	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rubbed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 rubbed	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 rubbed	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 rubbed	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 rubbed	aux:pass
41	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 extracted	parataxis
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 liver	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 liver	det
44	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rubbed	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 pass	punct
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 pass	advmod
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 disease	nmod:poss
48	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 pass	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 pass	aux
50	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretend	parataxis
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 pass	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 pass	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 pass	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 pretend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	you						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					ill property	tree rules
3	come back	present	your husband						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			husband				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	see	past	I			my sleep			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	cut	must · passive		the throat of our foal					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	extract	past	the liver						vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	rub	must · passive		I				with the liver	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with liver=Theme
9	pass away	future	my disease				then	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
10	sleep		my						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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 28, sentence 67

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 67