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title: The Turks, according to Mr. Tozer, give the name of _vurkolak_, and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Turks, according to Mr. Tozer, give the name of _vurkolak_, and some of the Albanians, says Hahn, give that of +vourvolak-ou+ to the restless dead. Who acts: Turks, some. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, with its dependency 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 79

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The Turks, according to Mr. Tozer, give the name of \_vurkolak\_, and some of the Albanians, says Hahn, give that of +vourvolak-ou+ to the restless dead.

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**Who acts:** Turks, some · **What happens:** accord, give, say, name · **To what, where:** name, vurkolak · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turks, some), 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:pg22373:55:79
# text = The Turks, according to Mr. Tozer, give the name of _vurkolak_, and some of the Albanians, says Hahn, give that of +vourvolak-ou+ to the restless dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Turks	Turk	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Tozer	Tozer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	vurkolak	vurkolak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Albanians	Albanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	iobj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	vourvolak	vourvolak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	ou	ou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	30	punct	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | the Turks and Tozer  Mr. | the name of vurkolak |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | present | the Turks and Tozer  Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | vurkolak |  |  |  |  | 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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