Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 84

Bernhard Schmidt, although an uncompromising opponent of Fallmerayer's doctrines with regard to the Slavonic origin of the present inhabitants of Greece, allows that the Greeks, as they borrowed from the Slavonians a name for the Vampire, may have received from them also certain views and customs with respect to it.

Who acts: Bernhard, Greeks, Fallmerayer · What happens: uncompromis, allow, borrow, receive, indoctrinate · To what, where: Slavonians, Greeks

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 (Bernhard, Greeks, Fallmerayer), 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	Bernhard	Bernhard	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 allows	nsubj
2	Schmidt	Schmidt	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bernhard	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 opponent	punct
4	although	although	SCONJ	_	7 opponent	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 opponent	det
6	uncompromising	uncompromis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 opponent	amod
7	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bernhard	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 doctrines	case
9	Fallmerayer	Fallmerayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 doctrines	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Fallmerayer	case
11	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 opponent	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 regard	case
13	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doctrines	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 origin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 origin	det
16	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 origin	compound
17	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 regard	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 inhabitants	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 inhabitants	det
20	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 inhabitants	amod
21	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 origin	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Greece	case
23	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 inhabitants	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bernhard	punct
25	allows	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 received	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Greeks	det
28	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	44 received	nsubj:pass
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 borrowed	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 borrowed	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 borrowed	nsubj
32	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Greeks	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 Slavonians	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Slavonians	det
35	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 borrowed	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 name	det
37	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Slavonians	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 Vampire	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Vampire	det
40	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 name	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Greeks	punct
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 received	aux
43	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 received	aux
44	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 allows	ccomp
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 received	obl
47	also	also	ADV	_	49 views	advmod
48	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 views	amod
49	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 received	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 customs	cc
51	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 views	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 respect	case
53	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 received	obl
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 respect	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 allows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	uncompromis	gerund				tree rules
2	allow	present	Bernhard			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	borrow	past	Greeks = greek	the Slavonians		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavonian=Theme
4	receive	may · perfect · passive		the Greeks	from vampires = vampire; with respect to respect; certain views and customs obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from they=Source
5	indoctrinate		Fallmerayer		with regard to the Slavonic origin of the present inhabitants of Greece	nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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