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title: “Master, I will pour blood into an ewe-skin, put that under my armpi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Master, I will pour blood into an ewe-skin, put that under my armpit and talk to the maiden. Who acts: master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 82

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“Master, I will pour blood into an ewe-skin, put that under my armpit and talk to the maiden.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** pour, put, talk · **To what, where:** Master, ewe skin, that, armpit

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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:pg62509:9:82
# text = “Master, I will pour blood into an ewe-skin, put that under my armpit and talk to the maiden.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	armpit	armpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** *in a quote* | future | the master *= master* | Master |  | a ewe skin |  | blood *obj* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme into skin=Destination |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the master *= master* *not said here* | that |  | my armpit |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme under armpit=Destination |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | the master *= master* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the maiden | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to maiden=Co-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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