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title: But whatever may be the cause of a corpse's "vampirism," it is gener… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But whatever may be the cause of a corpse's "vampirism," it is generally agreed that it will give its neighbors no rest until they have at least transfixed it. Who acts: whatever, cause, Evil, corpses. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., p
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 125

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But whatever may be the cause of a corpse's "vampirism," it is generally agreed that it will give its neighbors no rest until they have at least transfixed it.

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**Who acts:** whatever, cause, Evil, corpses · **What happens:** be, agree, give, have, transfix · **To what, where:** cause, Evil, neighbors, least

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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: who acts (whatever, cause, Evil, corpses), 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:pg22373:54:125
# text = But whatever may be the cause of a corpse's "vampirism," it is generally agreed that it will give its neighbors no rest until they have at least transfixed it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vampirism	vampirism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	obl	_	_
32	transfixed	transfix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | whatever | the cause |  |  |  | of a corpse's vampirism | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present · passive | the cause *not said here* | Evil |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | future | Evil | Evil's neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Recipient rest=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | corpses *= corpse* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **transfix** | past | corpses *= corpse* *not said here* | Evil |  | least |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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