Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 10
But the Lord Himself was among the people gathered together there, and He said, "Listen not to that voice, for the field is verily the poor man's."
Who acts: Lord Himself, Himself, field · What happens: be, gather, say, not listen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Himself, Himself, field), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gathered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Himself | det |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Himself | compound |
| 4 | Himself | Himself | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | cop |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gathered | nsubj |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 gathered | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gathered | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Listen | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Listen | punct |
| 18 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 Listen | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 voice | det |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Listen | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 man | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 man | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 man | cop |
| 28 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 31 man | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Listen | obl |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 man | case |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Listen | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | among the people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | past | the Lord Himself | there | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Himself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not listen in a quote | infinitive | to that voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the field | 's the poor man; verily property | tree rules |
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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