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title: According to them, as well as to their parallels elsewhere, a stake… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: According to them, as well as to their parallels elsewhere, a stake must be driven through the murderous corpse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 113

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According to them, as well as to their parallels elsewhere, a stake must be driven through the murderous corpse.

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**What happens:** accord, drive · **To what, where:** directions, murderous corpse

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. 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.

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**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:pg22373:54:113
# text = According to them, as well as to their parallels elsewhere, a stake must be driven through the murderous corpse.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	10	cc	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	murderous	murderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  | directions *= direction* |  |  | to directions's parallels; elsewhere *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to they=Goal |
| 2 | **drive** | must · passive |  |  |  | the murderous corpse |  | accord a stake | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: through corpse=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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