--- title: [417] But the thirst for blood attributed by Homer to his shadowy gh… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [417] But the thirst for blood attributed by Homer to his shadowy ghosts seems to have been of a different nature from that evinced by the material Vampire of modern days, nor does that ghastly _revenant_ seem by any means fully to correspond to such ghostly destroyers as the spirit of Gello, or the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Ghost Stories., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/) / 87 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 87 \[417\] But the thirst for blood attributed by Homer to his shadowy ghosts seems to have been of a different nature from that evinced by the material Vampire of modern days, nor does that ghastly \_revenant\_ seem by any means fully to correspond to such ghostly destroyers as the spirit of Gello, or the spectres of Medea's slaughtered children. **Who acts:** thirst, revenant \_, any · **What happens:** attribute, seem, be, evince, do, mean · **To what, where:** thirst, that, different nature 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 (thirst, revenant \_, any), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:54:87 # text = [417] But the thirst for blood attributed by Homer to his shadowy ghosts seems to have been of a different nature from that evinced by the material Vampire of modern days, nor does that ghastly _revenant_ seem by any means fully to correspond to such ghostly destroyers as the spirit of Gello, or the spectres of Medea's slaughtered children. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 417 417 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 But but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 attributed attribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Homer homer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 shadowy shadowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 18 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nmod _ _ 26 evinced evince VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Vampire vampire NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 36 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 obj _ _ 38 ghastly ghastly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 revenant revenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 _ _ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 43 by by SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 45 nsubj _ _ 45 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 ccomp _ _ 46 fully fully ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 correspond correspond VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 ghostly ghostly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 destroyers destroyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 53 as as ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 Gello Gello PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 or or CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 spectres spectre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 parataxis _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 63 Medea Medea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 64 's 's PART POS _ 63 case _ _ 65 slaughtered slaughter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 66 amod _ _ 66 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attribute** | participle | | the thirst for blood *not said here* | | | | by Homer; to thirst's shadowy ghosts | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | present | the thirst for blood | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive · perfect | the thirst for blood *not said here* | | | that | | of a different nature | tree rules | | 4 | **evince** | participle | | a different nature *not said here* | | | | by the material Vampire of modern days | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | present | the thirst for blood *not said here* | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 6 | **seem** | present | revenant \_ | | | | | ghastly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **mean** | present | any | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **correspond** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any *not said here* | | | | | to such ghostly destroyers; as the spirit of Gello; fully *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **slaughter** | participle | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **ghost** | | thirst | | | | | | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/88/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/)