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description: [422] Sometimes, moreover, a man is destined from his birth to be a vampire, being the offspring of some unholy union. 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 123

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\[422\] Sometimes, moreover, a man is destined from his birth to be a vampire, being the offspring of some unholy union.

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**What happens:** destine, be · **To what, where:** man, birth, vampire, offspring

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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:pg22373:54:123
# text = [422] Sometimes, moreover, a man is destined from his birth to be a vampire, being the offspring of some unholy union.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	422	422	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	unholy	unholy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destine** | present · passive |  | a man |  | man's birth |  | moreover *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a vampire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | the offspring |  |  |  | of some unholy union | tree rules |

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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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