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description: Among races which burn their dead, remarks Hertz in his exhaustive treatise on the Werwolf (p. 126), little is known of regular "corpse-spectres." Who acts: races. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 73

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Among races which burn their dead, remarks Hertz in his exhaustive treatise on the Werwolf (p. 126), little is known of regular "corpse-spectres."

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**Who acts:** races · **What happens:** burn, remark, know · **To what, where:** dead, Hertz, exhaustive treatise, little

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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 (races), 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:pg22373:54:73
# text = Among races which burn their dead, remarks Hertz in his exhaustive treatise on the Werwolf (p. 126), little is known of regular "corpse-spectres."
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	remarks	remark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Hertz	Hertz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	exhaustive	exhaustive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	treatise	treatise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Werwolf	Werwolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	126	126	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	spectres	spectre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | races | races's dead |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present |  | Hertz |  | Hertz's exhaustive treatise on the Werwolf |  | among races | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hertz=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | present · passive |  | little |  |  |  | of regular corpse spectres | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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