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title: But the Lord Himself was among the people gathered together there, a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 10

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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."

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**Who acts:** Lord Himself, Himself, field · **What happens:** be, gather, say, not listen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg29672:21:10
# text = 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."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Himself	Himself	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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