Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 125

But whatever may be the cause of a corpse's "vampirism," it is generally agreed that it will give its neighbors no rest until they have at least transfixed it.

Who acts: whatever, cause, Evil, corpses · What happens: be, agree, give, have, transfix · To what, where: cause, Evil, neighbors, least

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 (whatever, cause, Evil, corpses), 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	_	6 cause	cc
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cause	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cause	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cause	det
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 vampirism	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 corpse	det
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vampirism	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 corpse	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 vampirism	punct
12	vampirism	vampirism	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 agreed	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 agreed	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 agreed	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 agreed	aux:pass
17	generally	generally	ADV	_	18 agreed	advmod
18	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cause	acl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 agreed	xcomp
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 neighbors	nmod:poss
24	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	obj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 rest	det
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 give	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 least	case
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 transfixed	obl
32	transfixed	transfix	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 have	ccomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 transfixed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	may	whatever	the cause		of a corpse's vampirism	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	present · passive	the cause not said here	Evil		generally property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	future	Evil	Evil's neighbors			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Recipient rest=Theme
4	have	present	corpses = corpse				tree rules
5	transfix	past	corpses = corpse not said here	Evil	least		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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