Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 84
"We will build," they said, "a grave which neither man can destroy nor storms and tempests wash away."
Who acts: We, tribes, man, storms · What happens: build, say, destroy, wash away · To what, where: grave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, tribes, man, storms), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 build | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | aux |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grave | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 grave | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grave | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 destroy | obj |
| 14 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 destroy | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 destroy | aux |
| 17 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 grave | acl:relcl |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 wash | cc |
| 19 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wash | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tempests | cc |
| 21 | tempests | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 storms | conj |
| 22 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 destroy | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 wash | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | future | We | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | tribes = tribe | a grave ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | destroy in a quote | can | neither man | a grave | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wash away in a quote | present | storms and tempests | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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