Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 104

“_Bátyushka_,”[50] she said, “you would not then believe my words, and now you have acknowledged yourself that it is possible to be guilty without guilt.”

Who acts: Bátyushka, you, it, my · What happens: say, not believe, acknowledge, be, word · To what, where: words, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bátyushka, you, it, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Bátyushka	punct
3	Bátyushka	Bátyushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Bátyushka	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Bátyushka	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Bátyushka	punct
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 50	punct
8	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Bátyushka	appos
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 50	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 believe	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 believe	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 believe	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 believe	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 believe	advmod
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 believe	advmod
18	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 words	nmod:poss
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 believe	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 acknowledged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 acknowledged	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 acknowledged	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 acknowledged	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 acknowledged	aux
26	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 acknowledged	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 possible	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 possible	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 possible	cop
31	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 acknowledged	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 guilty	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 guilty	cop
34	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 possible	csubj
35	without	without	ADP	_	36 guilt	case
36	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 guilty	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bátyushka				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not believe in a quote	would	you	my words	then		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	acknowledge in a quote	present · perfect	you	yourself	now		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	it			possible property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive				without guilt; guilty property	tree rules
6	word in a quote		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 33, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 104