Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 123

[422] Sometimes, moreover, a man is destined from his birth to be a vampire, being the offspring of some unholy union.

What happens: destine, be · To what, where: man, birth, vampire, offspring

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: 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 422	punct
2	422	422	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 422	punct
4	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 422	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 destined	punct
6	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	11 destined	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 destined	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 destined	aux:pass
11	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 422	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 birth	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 birth	nmod:poss
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 vampire	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 vampire	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 vampire	det
18	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 offspring	punct
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 offspring	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 offspring	det
22	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vampire	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 union	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 union	det
25	unholy	unholy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 union	amod
26	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 offspring	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 422	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	destine	present · passive	a man	man's birth	moreover property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	a vampire			tree rules
3	is a	gerund	the offspring		of some unholy union	tree rules

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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