Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 98

The Kashoubes say that when a _Vieszcy_, as they call the Vampire, wakes from his sleep within the grave, he begins to gnaw his hands and feet; and as he gnaws, one after another, first his relations, then his other neighbors, sicken and die.

Who acts: Kashoubes, Vampire, name · What happens: say, call, wake, begin, gnaw, sicken · To what, where: Vampire, sleep, hands, one · 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 (Kashoubes, Vampire, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kashoubes	det
2	Kashoubes	kashoube	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 when	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 say	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Vieszcy	det
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Vieszcy	punct
8	Vieszcy	Vieszcy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 when	appos
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Vieszcy	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 call	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 _	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Vampire	det
15	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wakes	punct
17	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Vampire	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 sleep	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sleep	nmod:poss
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wakes	obl
21	within	within	ADP	_	23 grave	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grave	det
23	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wakes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 begins	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 begins	nsubj
26	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wakes	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 gnaw	mark
28	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 begins	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gnaw	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feet	cc
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hands	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 gnaws	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gnaws	cc
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 gnaws	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gnaws	nsubj
37	gnaws	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 call	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 one	punct
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 gnaws	obj
40	after	after	ADP	_	41 another	case
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 one	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 relations	punct
43	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 relations	advmod
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 relations	nmod:poss
45	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 gnaws	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 neighbors	punct
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 neighbors	advmod
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 neighbors	nmod:poss
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 neighbors	amod
50	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 relations	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sicken	punct
52	sicken	sicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 relations	parataxis
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 die	cc
54	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 sicken	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Kashoubes						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	call speech: assert	present	Kashoubes = kashoube		the Vampire				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vampire=Recipient
3	wake	present	the Vampire not said here			name's sleep		within the grave	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	begin	present	name						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	gnaw	to-infinitive	name not said here	name's hands and feet					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	gnaw	present	name	one			after another		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	sicken	present							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	die	present							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	sleep		name						nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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