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title: Supposed by some philologists to be from _pit'_ = drink, whence the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Supposed by some philologists to be from _pit'_ = drink, whence the Croatian name for a vampire _pijawica_. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 82

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Supposed by some philologists to be from \_pit'\_ = drink, whence the Croatian name for a vampire \_pijawica\_.

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**What happens:** suppose, be · **To what, where:** \_ pit

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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: 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:pg22373:55:82
# text = Supposed by some philologists to be from _pit'_ = drink, whence the Croatian name for a vampire _pijawica_.
1	Supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	philologists	philologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	punct	_	_
13	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	pijawica	pijawica	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by some philologists | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | \_ pit and drink |  |  | tree rules |

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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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