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title: Nor will he admit that any very great stress ought to be laid upon t… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor will he admit that any very great stress ought to be laid upon the fact that the Vampire is generally called in Greece by a name of Slavonic extraction; for in the islands, which were, he says, little if at all affected by Slavonic influences, the Vampire bears a thoroughly Hellenic designation.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 86

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Nor will he admit that any very great stress ought to be laid upon the fact that the Vampire is generally called in Greece by a name of Slavonic extraction; for in the islands, which were, he says, little if at all affected by Slavonic influences, the Vampire bears a thoroughly Hellenic designation.

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**Who acts:** Bernhard, name · **What happens:** admit, lay, call, say, affect, name · **To what, where:** great stress, fact, Vampire, Greece, little, Slavonic extraction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bernhard, name), 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:pg22373:54:86
# text = Nor will he admit that any very great stress ought to be laid upon the fact that the Vampire is generally called in Greece by a name of Slavonic extraction; for in the islands, which were, he says, little if at all affected by Slavonic influences, the Vampire bears a thoroughly Hellenic designation.
1	Nor	nor	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	extraction	extraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obj	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	conj	_	_
47	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	influences	influence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	Hellenic	Hellenic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | future | Bernhard |  |  |  |  | for the islands | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | ought · passive |  | any great stress |  | the fact |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon fact=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive | a name of Slavonic extraction | the Vampire |  | Greece |  | generally *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bernhard | little |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic |
| 5 | **affect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Slavonic influences and the Vampire bears  a thoroughly Hellenic designation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Slavonic extraction |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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