Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 77

The belief in vampires is the specific Slavonian form of the universal belief in spectres (_Gespenster_)," says Hertz, and certainly vampirism has always made those lands peculiarly its own which are or have been tenanted or greatly influenced by Slavonians.

Who acts: belief, Hertz · What happens: be, say, make, tenant, influence · To what, where: specific Slavonian form, vampirism, lands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (belief, Hertz), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 belief	det
2	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vampires	case
4	vampires	vampire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 belief	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 form	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
7	specific	specific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
8	Slavonian	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 form	compound
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 belief	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 belief	det
12	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 belief	amod
13	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 spectres	case
15	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 belief	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 Gespenster	punct
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 Gespenster	punct
18	Gespenster	Gespenster	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spectres	appos
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 Gespenster	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Gespenster	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 form	parataxis
24	Hertz	Hertz	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	28 vampirism	advmod
28	vampirism	vampirism	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj:pass
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 made	advmod
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 says	ccomp
32	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 lands	det
33	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	obj
34	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	_	36 own	advmod
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 own	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lands	amod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 tenanted	obj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 tenanted	aux:pass
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 tenanted	cc
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 tenanted	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 tenanted	aux:pass
42	tenanted	tenant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 lands	acl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 influenced	cc
44	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	45 influenced	advmod
45	influenced	influence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 tenanted	conj
46	by	by	ADP	_	47 Slavonians	case
47	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	45 influenced	obl:agent
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 form	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the belief in vampires	the specific Slavonian form	of the universal belief in spectres	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Hertz			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	present · perfect · passive		vampirism	always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary land=Product
4	tenant in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that lands		tree rules
5	influence in a quote	participle			greatly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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