Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 44

But, unlike the Arabian Nights, there is no positive fatalism; for that would imply a judgment; a warping of facts to suit a theory.

What happens: be, imply, suit, warp · To what, where: positive fatalism, judgment, theory, facts

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 fatalism	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fatalism	punct
3	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	6 Nights	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nights	det
5	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Nights	amod
6	Nights	Night	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 fatalism	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fatalism	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 fatalism	det
11	positive	positive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fatalism	amod
12	fatalism	fatalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 imply	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 imply	obl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 imply	aux
17	imply	imply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fatalism	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 judgment	det
19	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 imply	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 warping	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 warping	det
22	warping	warping	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 imply	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 facts	case
24	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 warping	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 suit	mark
26	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 warping	acl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 theory	det
28	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 suit	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fatalism	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	no positive fatalism	unlike the Arabian Nights		tree rules
2	imply	would	a judgment		for that; a warping of facts obl	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot judgment=Topic
3	suit	to-infinitive	a theory			tree rules
4	warp		facts			nom warping «event transitive»: of=patient

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 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 44