Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 86
Can the Eternal Father care less for an immortal soul?
Who acts: Eternal Father · What happens: care
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 (Eternal Father), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Father | det |
| 3 | Eternal | Eternal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Father | compound |
| 4 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 care | nsubj |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 care | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 soul | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 9 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soul | amod |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 care | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | can | the Eternal Father | for a immortal soul; less property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for soul=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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