Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 54

They wept and lamented and cried, "We are lost! we are lost!

Who acts: prayers · What happens: weep, lament, cry, lose · To what, where: We · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lamented	cc
4	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux:pass
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lost	advcl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux:pass
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cried	ccomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	weep	past	prayers = prayer		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lament	past	prayers = prayer not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past	prayers = prayer not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lose in a quote	present · passive		We	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	lose in a quote	present · passive		we	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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