Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 115

But a Bohemian vampire, when staked in this manner in the year 1337, says Mannhardt,[420] merely exclaimed that the stick would be very useful for keeping off dogs; and a _strigon_ (or Istrian vampire) who was transfixed with a sharp thorn cudgel near Laibach, in 1672, pulled it out of his body and flung it back contemptuously.

Who acts: Bohemian vampire, Mannhardt, stick, strigon · What happens: stake, say, exclaim, be, keep off, transfix · To what, where: manner, dogs, Istrian vampire, 1672, stick, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bohemian vampire, Mannhardt, stick, strigon), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vampire	det
3	Bohemian	bohemian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vampire	amod
4	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 staked	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 staked	advmod
7	staked	stake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vampire	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 manner	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 manner	det
10	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staked	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staked	obl
14	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 year	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 vampire	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Mannhardt	Mannhardt	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 exclaimed	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 420	punct
19	[	[	PUNCT	_	20 420	punct
20	420	420	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 Mannhardt	appos
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	20 420	punct
22	merely	merely	ADV	_	23 exclaimed	advmod
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 says	ccomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 useful	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stick	det
26	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 useful	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 useful	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 useful	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 useful	advmod
30	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 exclaimed	ccomp
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 keeping	mark
32	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 useful	advcl
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 keeping	compound:prt
34	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 keeping	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 pulled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 pulled	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 strigon	det
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 strigon	punct
39	strigon	strigon	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 pulled	nsubj
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 strigon	punct
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 vampire	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 vampire	cc
43	Istrian	istrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 vampire	amod
44	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 strigon	conj
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 vampire	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 transfixed	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 transfixed	aux:pass
48	transfixed	transfix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 vampire	acl:relcl
49	with	with	ADP	_	53 cudgel	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 cudgel	det
51	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cudgel	amod
52	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 cudgel	compound
53	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 transfixed	obl
54	near	near	ADP	_	55 Laibach	case
55	Laibach	Laibach	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 cudgel	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 1672	punct
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 1672	case
58	1672	1672	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 transfixed	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 strigon	punct
60	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 says	ccomp
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 pulled	obj
62	out	out	ADP	_	65 body	case
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 body	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 body	nmod:poss
65	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 pulled	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 flung	cc
67	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 pulled	conj
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 flung	obj
69	back	back	ADV	_	67 flung	advmod
70	contemptuously	contemptuously	ADV	_	67 flung	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stake	participle			this manner	year		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	a Bohemian vampire					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	exclaim speech: express	past	Mannhardt				merely property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	the stick				useful property	tree rules
5	keep off	gerund	the stick not said here	dogs				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
6	transfix	past · passive		Istrian vampire	1672		with a sharp thorn cudgel near Laibach	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	pull	past	a strigon or Istrian vampire	stick	Mannhardt's body			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out body=Initial_Location
8	fling back	past	a strigon or Istrian vampire not said here	stick			contemptuously property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 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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