Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 92

[421] How superior our intelligence is to that of Slavonian peasants is proved by the fact that they still drive stakes through supposed vampires, whereas our law no longer demands that a suicide shall have a stake driven through his corpse.

Who acts: intelligence, fact, peasants, law, suicide · What happens: be, prove, drive, suppose, demand, have · To what, where: that, stakes, stake, corpse

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 (intelligence, fact, peasants, law), 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	_	2 421	punct
2	421	421	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 superior	punct
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 superior	advmod
5	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 421	parataxis
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 intelligence	nmod:poss
7	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 that	cop
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 proved	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 peasants	case
12	Slavonian	slavonian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 peasants	amod
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 that	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proved	aux:pass
15	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 superior	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fact	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 drive	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drive	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 drive	advmod
22	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fact	acl
23	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drive	obj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 vampires	case
25	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 vampires	amod
26	vampires	vampire	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drive	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 demands	punct
28	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	33 demands	mark
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 law	nmod:poss
30	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 demands	nsubj
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 demands	advmod
33	demands	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 drive	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 have	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 suicide	det
36	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 demands	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stake	det
40	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
41	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 stake	acl
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 corpse	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 corpse	nmod:poss
44	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 driven	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 421	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	our intelligence				to that; of Slavonian peasants	tree rules
2	prove	present · passive	the fact	that				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	drive	present	peasants = peasant	stakes		still	through supposed vampires	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stake=Theme through vampire=Trajectory
4	suppose	participle						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	demand speech: request	present	our law				long property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	have	shall	a suicide	a stake				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stake=Patient
7	drive	participle		a stake not said here	suicide's corpse			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through corpse=Trajectory

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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