Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 53
You are trampling under foot the young growths, and with your scraping and digging you will destroy many a thriving tree."
Who acts: You · What happens: trample, dig, destroy, thrive · To what, where: young growths, foot, many
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 trampling | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trampling | aux |
| 3 | trampling | trample | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trampling | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 growths | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 growths | amod |
| 8 | growths | growth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trampling | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 destroy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 destroy | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 scraping | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 scraping | nmod:poss |
| 13 | scraping | scraping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 destroy | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 digging | cc |
| 15 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 scraping | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 destroy | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 destroy | aux |
| 18 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trampling | parataxis |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 destroy | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | thriving | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 tree | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 many | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 destroy | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 trampling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample | present · progressive | You | the young growths | foot | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dig | gerund | you not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | destroy | future | you | many a thriving tree | with your scraping | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent many=Patient with scraping=Instrument | |||
| 4 | thrive | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «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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