The indefinite-personal sentence in the initial position of a text as a means of characterizing an unnamed subject in the poem “Distances: miles, versts...” by Marina Tsvetaeva

The article examines the role of verbal predicates in the structure of indefinite-personal sentences. The semantic variation of verbal predicates is considered to be the basis for the compositional development of the text. The main element of an indefinite-personal construction incorporates two elementary semantic components, conveying meaning of an indefinite subject and of its action simultaneously. When the initial sentence's subject is not determined and the indefinite subject's semantics is part of the predicate’s semantics, one can identify significant properties both of indefinite subject and of patient. It is the initial indefinite-personal sentence that provides the basis for characterizing the subjects that emerge within the text.