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title: In the meantime I will go by and will stab you in the side with my k… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime I will go by and will stab you in the side with my knife; then blood will flow; then your sister will betray herself who she is.” Who acts: I, blood, sister. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 83

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In the meantime I will go by and will stab you in the side with my knife; then blood will flow; then your sister will betray herself who she is.”

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**Who acts:** I, blood, sister · **What happens:** go by, stab, flow, betray, be · **To what, where:** meantime, you, side, sister

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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 (I, blood, sister), 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:pg62509:9:83
# text = In the meantime I will go by and will stab you in the side with my knife; then blood will flow; then your sister will betray herself who she is.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
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	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stab	stab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	betray	betray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
29	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | future | I |  |  | the meantime |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location |
| 2 | **stab** | future | I *not said here* | you |  | the side with my knife |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient in side=Location |
| 3 | **flow** | future | blood |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **betray** | future | your sister | sister |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | present | sister |  |  |  |  | who *obj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=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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