--- title: “You can sow wheat, wait until it grows up, harvest it, thresh it, t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “You can sow wheat, wait until it grows up, harvest it, thresh it, turn it into flour, make five stones of bread, eat the bread, and then set out on the hunt, and we shall succeed.” Who acts: You, wheat, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wheat, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:23:123 # text = “You can sow wheat, wait until it grows up, harvest it, thresh it, turn it into flour, make five stones of bread, eat the bread, and then set out on the hunt, and we shall succeed.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sow sow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 8 until until SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 harvest harvest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 thresh thresh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sow** *in a quote* | can | You | wheat | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | | 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present | wheat | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **harvest** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | wheat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **thresh** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | wheat | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | wheat | | flour | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into flour=Trajectory | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | five stones of bread | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stone=Product | | 8 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the bread | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | | 9 | **set out** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | the hunt | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **succeed** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/124/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/23/)