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title: He submitted to his torturers and thought: “If I must suffer, still… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He submitted to his torturers and thought: “If I must suffer, still the Tsarévich will soon learn something of what trouble is.” Who acts: servant, Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 100

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He submitted to his torturers and thought: “If I must suffer, still the Tsarévich will soon learn something of what trouble is.”

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**Who acts:** servant, Tsarévich · **What happens:** submit, think, suffer, learn, be · **To what, where:** something, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, Tsarévich), 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:pg62509:38:101
# text = He submitted to his torturers and thought: “If I must suffer, still the Tsarévich will soon learn something of what trouble is.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	submitted	submit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	torturers	torturer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **submit** | past | servant |  |  |  |  | to servant's torturers | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to torturer=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | must | servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **learn** *in a quote* | future | the Tsarévich | something |  |  | still | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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