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title: As you come back, you will see lofty stones standing upright; sprink… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As you come back, you will see lofty stones standing upright; sprinkle them all with the Water of Life.” Who acts: you, lofty stones. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 108

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As you come back, you will see lofty stones standing upright; sprinkle them all with the Water of Life.”

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**Who acts:** you, lofty stones · **What happens:** come back, see, stand, sprinkle · **To what, where:** lofty stones, cries

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lofty stones), 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:pg62509:32:108
# text = As you come back, you will see lofty stones standing upright; sprinkle them all with the Water of Life.”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | lofty stones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | lofty stones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | cries *= cry* |  |  |  | with the Water of Life | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme |

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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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