Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 73
Is not death the destiny of all, and is there a more glorious death than that of the conqueror in the hour of victory?
Who acts: destiny · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: death, glorious death
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (destiny), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 death | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 death | advmod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destiny | csubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 destiny | det |
| 5 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 death | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 destiny | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 is | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 death | cop |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 death | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 glorious | advmod |
| 14 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 death | amod |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 death | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 conqueror | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 conqueror | det |
| 20 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hour | det |
| 23 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conqueror | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 victory | case |
| 25 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hour | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 death | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the destiny of all | a glorious death | than that of the conqueror in the hour of victory | tree rules |
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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