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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 40

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Thus in the Christian belief, St. Michael weighs human souls; those who weigh much sink down into hell, and those who are light arise to the heavenly paradise."\]

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**Who acts:** Michael, those · **What happens:** weigh, sink down, be, arise · **To what, where:** human souls, hell

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:33:40
# text = Thus in the Christian belief, St. Michael weighs human souls; those who weigh much sink down into hell, and those who are light arise to the heavenly paradise."]
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
10	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
27	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | present | Michael  St. | human souls |  |  |  | those *obl*; thus *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme soul=Value |
| 2 | **weigh** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sink down** | infinitive |  |  |  | hell |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | those |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **arise** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the heavenly paradise | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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