Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 37
They assure me this is not the fact, and that it all happened in real truth; so you must believe it.
Who acts: doors, this, it, you · What happens: assure, not be, happen, believe · To what, where: me, fact, real truth, truth
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, this, it, you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assure | nsubj |
| 2 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 assure | iobj |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fact | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fact | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fact | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fact | det |
| 8 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assure | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happened | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 happened | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 happened | advmod |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assure | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 truth | case |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 truth | amod |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 believe | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 believe | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 believe | aux |
| 22 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 assure | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 believe | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | present | doors = door | me | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | this | the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | it | real truth | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in truth=Location | |||
| 4 | believe | must | you | truth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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