Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 86

Nor will he admit that any very great stress ought to be laid upon the fact that the Vampire is generally called in Greece by a name of Slavonic extraction; for in the islands, which were, he says, little if at all affected by Slavonic influences, the Vampire bears a thoroughly Hellenic designation.

Who acts: Bernhard, name · What happens: admit, lay, call, say, affect, name · To what, where: great stress, fact, Vampire, Greece, little, Slavonic extraction · 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 (Bernhard, name), 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	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	4 admit	discourse
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 admit	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 admit	nsubj
4	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 laid	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 stress	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 great	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stress	amod
9	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	nsubj:pass
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	13 laid	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 laid	aux:pass
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 admit	advcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 fact	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fact	det
16	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 called	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Vampire	det
19	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
21	generally	generally	ADV	_	22 called	advmod
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fact	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Greece	case
24	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 name	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 name	det
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 extraction	case
29	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 extraction	compound
30	extraction	extraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 name	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 islands	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 islands	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 islands	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 islands	det
35	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 admit	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 were	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 were	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 islands	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 says	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 says	nsubj
41	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 admit	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 little	punct
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 says	obj
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 all	mark
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 all	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 little	conj
47	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 all	acl
48	by	by	ADP	_	50 influences	case
49	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 influences	amod
50	influences	influence	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 affected	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bears	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bears	det
53	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bears	compound
54	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 influences	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 designation	det
56	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 designation	amod
57	Hellenic	Hellenic	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 designation	compound
58	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bears	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 admit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	future	Bernhard			for the islands	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	lay	ought · passive		any great stress	the fact		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon fact=Destination
3	call	present · passive	a name of Slavonic extraction	the Vampire	Greece	generally property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present	Bernhard	little			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic
5	affect	participle				by Slavonic influences and the Vampire bears a thoroughly Hellenic designation	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	name			Slavonic extraction			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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