Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 84
Why should he be crushed to the earth, and provide in sorrow and pain for his bodily sustenance, while the birds sing and the flowers bloom free from care?
Who acts: birds, flowers · What happens: crush, provide, sing, bloom · To what, where: wanderer, sorrow
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 crushed | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 crushed | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 crushed | aux:pass |
| 5 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crushed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 provide | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 provide | cc |
| 11 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 crushed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sorrow | case |
| 13 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provide | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pain | cc |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sorrow | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sustenance | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sustenance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sustenance | amod |
| 19 | sustenance | sustenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pain | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sing | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 sing | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 birds | det |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sing | nsubj |
| 24 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 provide | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bloom | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flowers | det |
| 27 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bloom | nsubj |
| 28 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sing | conj |
| 29 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bloom | xcomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 care | case |
| 31 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 free | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 crushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | should · passive | wanderer | to the earth result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to earth=Result | ||||
| 2 | provide | infinitive | sorrow and pain for wanderer's bodily sustenance | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | bloom | present | the flowers | free property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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