Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 104
For several ghastly stories about the longing of Rakshasas and Vetalas for human flesh, some of which bear a strong resemblance to Slavonic vampire tales, see Brockhaus's translation of the first five books of the "Kathasaritsagara," vol. i. p. 94; vol. ii. pp.
Who acts: some, Rakshasas, first five books · What happens: bear, see, long, translate · To what, where: strong resemblance, translation
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, Rakshasas, first five books), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 3 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bear | obl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 longing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 longing | det |
| 7 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stories | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rakshasas | case |
| 9 | Rakshasas | Rakshasas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 longing | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Vetalas | cc |
| 11 | Vetalas | Vetalas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rakshasas | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 flesh | case |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flesh | amod |
| 14 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longing | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stories | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 bear | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 some | nmod |
| 19 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 resemblance | det |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 resemblance | amod |
| 22 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bear | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 tales | case |
| 24 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tales | amod |
| 25 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | compound |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bear | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bear | conj |
| 29 | Brockhaus | Brockhaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 translation | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Brockhaus | case |
| 31 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 books | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 books | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 books | amod |
| 35 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 books | nummod |
| 36 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 translation | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Kathasaritsagara | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Kathasaritsagara | det |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Kathasaritsagara | punct |
| 40 | Kathasaritsagara | Kathasaritsagara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 books | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 vol. | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 vol. | punct |
| 43 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Kathasaritsagara | appos |
| 44 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 43 vol. | conj |
| 45 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 i. | flat |
| 46 | 94 | 94 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 p. | flat |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 pp | punct |
| 48 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pp | compound |
| 49 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 48 vol. | flat |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 vol. | punct |
| 51 | pp | pp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bear | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present | some | a strong resemblance | for several ghastly stories about the longing of Rakshasas and Vetalas for human flesh; to Slavonic vampire tales | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer resemblance=Stimulus for story=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | some not said here | Brockhaus's translation of the first five books of the Kathasaritsagara | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer translation=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | long | Rakshasas and Vetalas | for human flesh | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: of=agent for=obl | |||||
| 4 | translate | the first five books of the Kathasaritsagara | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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