Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 87

[417] But the thirst for blood attributed by Homer to his shadowy ghosts seems to have been of a different nature from that evinced by the material Vampire of modern days, nor does that ghastly _revenant_ seem by any means fully to correspond to such ghostly destroyers as the spirit of Gello, or the spectres of Medea's slaughtered children.

Who acts: thirst, revenant _, any · What happens: attribute, seem, be, evince, do, mean · To what, where: thirst, that, different nature

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 (thirst, revenant _, any), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 417	punct
2	417	417	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 417	punct
4	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 seems	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thirst	det
6	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seems	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 blood	case
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thirst	nmod
9	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thirst	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Homer	case
11	Homer	homer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attributed	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 ghosts	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ghosts	nmod:poss
14	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ghosts	amod
15	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attributed	obl
16	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 417	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	23 nature	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 nature	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 nature	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 nature	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nature	det
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nature	amod
23	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seems	xcomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 nature	nmod
26	evinced	evince	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 nature	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 Vampire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Vampire	det
29	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Vampire	compound
30	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 evinced	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 days	case
32	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 days	amod
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Vampire	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 does	punct
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 does	cc
36	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seems	conj
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 does	obj
38	ghastly	ghastly	ADV	_	42 seem	advmod
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 _	punct
40	revenant	revenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 _	compound
41	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 seem	nsubj
42	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 does	parataxis
43	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 means	mark
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 means	nsubj
45	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 seem	ccomp
46	fully	fully	ADV	_	48 correspond	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 correspond	mark
48	correspond	correspond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 means	xcomp
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 destroyers	case
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 destroyers	amod
51	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 destroyers	amod
52	destroyers	destroyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 correspond	obl
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 spirit	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 spirit	det
55	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 correspond	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Gello	case
57	Gello	Gello	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 spirit	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 spectres	punct
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	61 spectres	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 spectres	det
61	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 means	parataxis
62	of	of	ADP	_	66 children	case
63	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 children	nmod:poss
64	's	's	PART	_	63 Medea	case
65	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 children	amod
66	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 spectres	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 417	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attribute	participle		the thirst for blood not said here		by Homer; to thirst's shadowy ghosts	tree rules
2	seem	present	the thirst for blood				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive · perfect	the thirst for blood not said here		that	of a different nature	tree rules
4	evince	participle		a different nature not said here		by the material Vampire of modern days	tree rules
5	do	present	the thirst for blood not said here	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	seem	present	revenant _			ghastly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	mean	present	any				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	correspond not said to happen	to-infinitive	any not said here			to such ghostly destroyers; as the spirit of Gello; fully property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	slaughter	participle					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	ghost		thirst				nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=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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