Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 79

The Turks, according to Mr. Tozer, give the name of _vurkolak_, and some of the Albanians, says Hahn, give that of +vourvolak-ou+ to the restless dead.

Who acts: Turks, some · What happens: accord, give, say, name · To what, where: name, vurkolak · 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 (Turks, some), 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 Turks	det
2	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 give	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Tozer	punct
4	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Tozer	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 according	fixed
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tozer	nmod:desc
7	Tozer	Tozer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Turks	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Turks	punct
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 vurkolak	case
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 of	punct
14	vurkolak	vurkolak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 name	nmod
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 give	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 says	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 says	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Albanians	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Albanians	det
21	Albanians	Albanian	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 some	punct
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 give	parataxis
24	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
26	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 give	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 give	iobj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 +	case
29	+	+	SYM	_	30 vourvolak	cc
30	vourvolak	vourvolak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	conj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 vourvolak	punct
32	ou	ou	X	Foreign=Yes	30 vourvolak	dep
33	+	+	SYM	_	30 vourvolak	punct
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 dead	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dead	det
36	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dead	amod
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 vourvolak	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	the Turks and Tozer Mr.	the name of vurkolak	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	present	the Turks and Tozer Mr. not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	name			vurkolak	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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