Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 121
He whom a vampire has slain is supposed, in some countries, himself to become a vampire.
Who acts: dead · What happens: suppose, become · To what, where: slain, countries, vampire
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 has | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vampire | det |
| 4 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux |
| 6 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 countries | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 countries | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 countries | det |
| 12 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 supposed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 become | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 become | mark |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 supposed | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 vampire | det |
| 18 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | slain | some countries | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | dead | a vampire | 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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