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title: But, unlike the Arabian Nights, there is no positive fatalism; for t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, unlike the Arabian Nights, there is no positive fatalism; for that would imply a judgment; a warping of facts to suit a theory. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 44

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

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:45
# text = But, unlike the Arabian Nights, there is no positive fatalism; for that would imply a judgment; a warping of facts to suit a theory.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
3	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Nights	Night	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fatalism	fatalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	imply	imply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	warping	warping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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