Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

“See to this, my master: when you lie down with your young wives, dress them in your clothes, and put on your wives’ clothes, otherwise you will all be killed.”

Who acts: you · What happens: see, lie down, dress, put, kill · To what, where: master, daughters, clothes, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. 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	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 See	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 master	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lie	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 lie	nsubj
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 See	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 wives	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wives	nmod:poss
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wives	amod
16	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lie	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dress	punct
18	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lie	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dress	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 clothes	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 clothes	nmod:poss
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 dress	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 See	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 clothes	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wives	nmod:poss
28	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 clothes	nmod:poss
29	’	's	PART	_	28 wives	case
30	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 put	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 killed	punct
32	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	37 killed	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 killed	nsubj:pass
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 killed	aux
35	all	all	ADV	_	37 killed	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 killed	aux:pass
37	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 put	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my master		to this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lie down in a quote	present	you			with your young wives	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dress in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	daughters = daughter	your clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	put in a quote	participle			your wives's clothes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination
5	kill in a quote	future · passive		you		all, otherwise property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 7, sentence 58

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 58