Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 13

God is over them, men cannot alter them."--"Not alter them!" roared the Tsar; "if I wish them altered, altered they must be.

Who acts: God, I, things · What happens: be, not alter, roar, wish, alter · To what, where: things, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, I, things), 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	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 alter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 them	cop
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 God	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 God	punct
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 alter	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 alter	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 alter	advmod
9	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 alter	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 alter	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 alter	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 alter	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 alter	punct
15	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 alter	advmod
16	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 roared	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alter	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 alter	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 alter	punct
20	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alter	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Tsar	det
22	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 roared	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 altered	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 altered	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wish	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wish	nsubj
27	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 altered	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wish	iobj
29	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 wish	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wish	punct
31	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 alter	parataxis
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 be	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 altered	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 alter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present				over things = thing	tree rules
2	not alter	can	God	things = thing			tree rules
3	not alter	infinitive		things = thing			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	roar in a quote	past		the Tsar			tree rules
5	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	I		things = thing		tree rules
6	alter not said to happen	participle	I not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	alter	participle					tree rules
8	be	must	things = thing				vn exist-47.1 «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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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