Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 73

Among races which burn their dead, remarks Hertz in his exhaustive treatise on the Werwolf (p. 126), little is known of regular "corpse-spectres."

Who acts: races · What happens: burn, remark, know · To what, where: dead, Hertz, exhaustive treatise, little

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 (races), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	2 races	case
2	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 remarks	obl
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 burn	nsubj
4	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 races	acl:relcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dead	nmod:poss
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burn	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 races	punct
8	remarks	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Hertz	Hertz	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remarks	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 treatise	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 treatise	nmod:poss
12	exhaustive	exhaustive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 treatise	amod
13	treatise	treatise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remarks	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 Werwolf	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Werwolf	det
16	Werwolf	Werwolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 treatise	nmod
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 p.	punct
18	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Werwolf	appos
19	126	126	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 p.	flat
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 p.	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 known	punct
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 known	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 known	aux:pass
24	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 treatise	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 spectres	case
26	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spectres	amod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 spectres	punct
28	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spectres	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 corpse	punct
30	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 known	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remarks	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	present	races	races's dead			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
2	remark speech: assert	present		Hertz	Hertz's exhaustive treatise on the Werwolf	among races	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hertz=Topic
3	know	present · passive		little		of regular corpse spectres	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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