Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 108

As you come back, you will see lofty stones standing upright; sprinkle them all with the Water of Life.”

Who acts: you, lofty stones · What happens: come back, see, stand, sprinkle · To what, where: lofty stones, cries

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lofty stones), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 come	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stones	amod
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
11	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stones	acl
12	upright	upright	ADV	_	11 standing	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sprinkle	punct
14	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sprinkle	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 them	nmod:unmarked
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 Water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Water	det
19	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sprinkle	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Life	case
21	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Water	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come back	present	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	future	you	lofty stones		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	lofty stones not said here		upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sprinkle	infinitive	you not said here	cries = cry	with the Water of Life	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme

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 32, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 108