--- title: According to Mr. Campbell ("West Highland Tales," i. p. 218), "Balla… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: According to Mr. Campbell ("West Highland Tales," i. p. 218), "Ballan Iocshlaint, teat, of ichor, of health, seems to be the meaning of the words." A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Magic and Witchcraft., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/) / 86 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 86 According to Mr. Campbell ("West Highland Tales," i. p. 218), "Ballan Iocshlaint, teat, of ichor, of health, seems to be the meaning of the words." **What happens:** accord, seem, be · **To what, where:** meaning This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:49:86 # text = According to Mr. Campbell ("West Highland Tales," i. p. 218), "Ballan Iocshlaint, teat, of ichor, of health, seems to be the meaning of the words." 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Campbell Campbell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 Highland Highland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Tales Tale PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat:foreign _ _ 13 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 14 218 218 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Ballan Ballan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Iocshlaint iocshlaint NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 teat teat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ichor ichor NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 29 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | accord Campbell Mr. and West Highland Tales | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the meaning | | | | of the words | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/87/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/)