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title: "The bride and bridegroom must have cuts made in their heels, and so… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "The bride and bridegroom must have cuts made in their heels, and some of their own blood must then be poured back into those wounds. Who acts: bride. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 16

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"The bride and bridegroom must have cuts made in their heels, and some of their own blood must then be poured back into those wounds.

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**Who acts:** bride · **What happens:** have, make, pour back · **To what, where:** cuts, heels, some, wounds

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:54:16
# text = "The bride and bridegroom must have cuts made in their heels, and some of their own blood must then be poured back into those wounds.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | must | the bride and bridegroom | cuts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | participle |  | cuts *not said here* |  | bride's heels |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **pour back** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | some |  | that wounds | then |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into wound=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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