Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 75

[416] The ordinary Modern-Greek word for a vampire, +vourkolakas+, he says, "is undoubtedly of Slavonic origin, being identical with the Slavonic name of the werwolf, which is called in Bohemian _vlkodlak_, in Bulgarian and Slovak, _vrkolak_, &c.," the vampire and the werwolf having many points in common.

Who acts: vampire, 416, c. · What happens: say, be, call, have, name · To what, where: werwolf, Bohemian, many points, common · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (vampire, 416, c.), 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	_	2 416	punct
2	416	416	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 origin	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 416	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
6	Modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Greek	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Modern	punct
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 416	nmod:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 vampire	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 vampire	det
12	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vourkolakas	punct
14	+	+	SYM	_	15 vourkolakas	cc
15	vourkolakas	vourkolaka	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 word	appos
16	+	+	SYM	_	15 vourkolakas	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 416	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 origin	cop
23	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	26 origin	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 origin	case
25	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 origin	amod
26	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 identical	punct
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 identical	cop
29	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 origin	amod
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 name	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 name	det
32	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 name	amod
33	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 identical	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 werwolf	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 werwolf	det
36	werwolf	werwolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 name	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 called	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 called	nsubj:pass
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 called	aux:pass
40	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 werwolf	acl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 Bohemian	case
42	Bohemian	Bohemian	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 called	obl
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 vlkodlak	punct
44	vlkodlak	vlkodlak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 origin	appos
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 vlkodlak	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Bulgarian	punct
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 Bulgarian	case
48	Bulgarian	Bulgarian	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 origin	appos
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 Slovak	cc
50	Slovak	Slovak	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Bulgarian	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 vrkolak	punct
52	_	_	PUNCT	_	53 vrkolak	punct
53	vrkolak	vrkolak	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Bulgarian	conj
54	_	_	PUNCT	_	48 Bulgarian	punct
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 c.	punct
56	&	&	CCONJ	_	57 c.	cc
57	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 origin	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 vampire	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 vampire	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 vampire	det
61	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 c.	conj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 werwolf	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 werwolf	det
64	werwolf	werwolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 c.	conj
65	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 c.	acl
66	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 points	amod
67	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 having	obj
68	in	in	ADP	_	69 common	case
69	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 having	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 origin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	vampire				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	416 the ordinary Greek word for a vampire			of Slavonic origin; undoubtedly property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	gerund				with the Slavonic name of the werwolf; identical property	tree rules
4	call in a quote	present · passive		the werwolf	Bohemian		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	have	gerund	c. and the vampire and the werwolf not said here	many points	common		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient
6	name in a quote			the werwolf			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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