Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 120

But even the most honorable dead may become vampires by accident.

Who acts: honorable dead · What happens: become · To what, where: vampires

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 (honorable dead), 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	_	8 become	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	8 become	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dead	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 honorable	advmod
5	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	vampires	vampire	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 accident	case
11	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vampires	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	may	the honorable dead	vampires by accident					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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