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title: My lightnings shall glint and my hail beat his field down; then your… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My lightnings shall glint and my hail beat his field down; then your peasant shall learn right, and regard my name-day.” Who acts: lightnings, hail, peasant, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 35

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My lightnings shall glint and my hail beat his field down; then your peasant shall learn right, and regard my name-day.”

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**Who acts:** lightnings, hail, peasant, my · **What happens:** glint, beat down, learn, regard, hail · **To what, where:** field

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightnings, hail, peasant, my), 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:pg62509:26:35
# text = My lightnings shall glint and my hail beat his field down; then your peasant shall learn right, and regard my name-day.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	glint	glint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	right	right	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glint** | shall | My lightnings |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat down** | past | my hail | hail's field |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | shall | your peasant |  |  |  | then | right *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **regard** | infinitive | your peasant *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hail** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom hail «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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