Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 80
He wept and sobbed, and remembered the words of the Gospel: _He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek_.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: weep, sob, remember, have, put down, exalt · To what, where: words, humble, Gospel
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: who acts (Tsar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sobbed | cc |
| 4 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remembered | cc |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remembered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Gospel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Gospel | det |
| 12 | Gospel | gospel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 hath | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 hath | punct |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hath | nsubj |
| 16 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | parataxis |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hath | xcomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 put | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mighty | det |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 put | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 seat | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 seat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mighty | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hath | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hath | cc |
| 26 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hath | conj |
| 27 | exalted | exalt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hath | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 humble | det |
| 29 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 exalted | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 meek | cc |
| 31 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 humble | conj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 exalted | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Tsar | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sob | past | Tsar not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remember | past | Tsar not said here | the words of the Gospel | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | put down | participle | Tsar not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | present | Tsar not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | exalt | past | Tsar not said here | the humble | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer humble=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | word | the Gospel | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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