Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 45
How shall I be put down from my seat and the humble and meek be exalted?”
What happens: put down, exalt · To what, where: I, seat
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 exalted | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 exalted | det |
| 12 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 exalted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meek | cc |
| 14 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 humble | conj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 exalted | aux:pass |
| 16 | exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 put | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 exalted | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 exalted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | shall · passive | I | my seat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | exalt | infinitive · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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 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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