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title: “You must pierce the heels of the bride and bridegroom and pour the… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You must pierce the heels of the bride and bridegroom and pour the blood again into the wounds, their own blood into each. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 147

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“You must pierce the heels of the bride and bridegroom and pour the blood again into the wounds, their own blood into each.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** pierce, pour · **To what, where:** heels, blood, wounds

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:2:147
# text = “You must pierce the heels of the bride and bridegroom and pour the blood again into the wounds, their own blood into each.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pierce** *in a quote* | must | You | the heels of the bride and bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient |
| 2 | **pour** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | the blood |  | the wounds and bride's own blood into each | again |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=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 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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