Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 40

Thus in the Christian belief, St. Michael weighs human souls; those who weigh much sink down into hell, and those who are light arise to the heavenly paradise."]

Who acts: Michael, those · What happens: weigh, sink down, be, arise · To what, where: human souls, hell

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	9 weighs	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 belief	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 belief	det
4	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 belief	amod
5	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thus	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
7	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Michael	nmod:desc
8	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 weighs	nsubj
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 arise	advcl
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 souls	amod
11	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weighs	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 those	punct
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 weighs	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 weigh	nsubj
15	weigh	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 those	acl:relcl
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 sink	advmod
17	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 weigh	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sink	compound:prt
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 hell	case
20	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sink	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 light	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 light	cc
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 light	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 light	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 light	cop
26	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 arise	parataxis
27	arise	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 paradise	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 paradise	det
30	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 paradise	amod
31	paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arise	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 arise	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 arise	punct
34	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 arise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	Michael St.	human souls		those obl; thus property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme soul=Value
2	weigh	present					tree rules
3	sink down	infinitive			hell		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	those			light property	tree rules
5	arise	present				to the heavenly paradise	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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