Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 83

In the meantime I will go by and will stab you in the side with my knife; then blood will flow; then your sister will betray herself who she is.”

Who acts: I, blood, sister · What happens: go by, stab, flow, betray, be · To what, where: meantime, you, side, sister

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, blood, sister), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stab	cc
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stab	aux
10	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 stab	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 side	det
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stab	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 knife	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knife	nmod:poss
17	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 flow	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 flow	advmod
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flow	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 flow	aux
22	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 betray	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 betray	advmod
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sister	nmod:poss
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 betray	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 betray	aux
28	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	parataxis
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 betray	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 is	obj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 is	nsubj
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 betray	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go by	future	I		the meantime			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location
2	stab	future	I not said here	you	the side with my knife			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient in side=Location
3	flow	future	blood			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	betray	future	your sister	sister		then		tree rules
5	be	present	sister				who obj	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=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 9, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 83