Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 22

All your words of kindness and passionate love, cannot crush the worm that is gnawing at the thread of my life--cannot silence the voice of conscience.

Who acts: words, worm, your · What happens: passionate, not crush, gnaw, word · To what, where: love, worm, kindness

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, worm, your), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 words	det:predet
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crush	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 kindness	case
5	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 passionate	cc
7	passionate	passionate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kindness	conj
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passionate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 crush	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 crush	advmod
12	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 worm	det
14	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crush	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 gnawing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gnawing	aux
17	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 worm	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 thread	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thread	det
20	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gnawing	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thread	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 silence	punct
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 silence	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 silence	advmod
27	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crush	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 voice	det
29	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 silence	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 conscience	case
31	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 voice	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 crush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	passionate	infinitive	your words of kindness not said here	love		tree rules
2	not crush	can	your words of kindness	the worm	silence the voice of conscience conj	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient
3	gnaw	present · progressive	the worm		at the thread of my life	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at thread=Patient
4	word		your	kindness		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 22