Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 32
Don't you deceive yourself; I serve God and the Emperor."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not deceive, serve · To what, where: yourself, God
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deceive | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 deceive | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 deceive | nsubj |
| 4 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 deceive | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 serve | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 serve | nsubj |
| 8 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deceive | conj |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 serve | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Emperor | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 God | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceive | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deceive | infinitive · do-support | you | yourself | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | serve | present | I | God and the Emperor | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |
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.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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