Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 13
Then the guests told the general of this; but the general was angry: “Do not believe him, he is an utter liar.”
Who acts: guests, general · What happens: tell, be, not believe · To what, where: general, utter liar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, general), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guests | det |
| 3 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 general | det |
| 6 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 general | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 angry | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 general | det |
| 12 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 angry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 angry | cop |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | ccomp |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 17 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 believe | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 believe | advmod |
| 19 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 believe | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 liar | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 liar | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 liar | cop |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 liar | det |
| 25 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 liar | amod |
| 26 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 believe | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the guests | the general of this | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent general=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | the general | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not believe in a quote | infinitive · do-support | general | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | general | a utter liar | tree rules |
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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