Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 64
None of these will ever betray us, and no one else knows our secret--we are safe."
Who acts: None, one, we · What happens: betray, know, be · To what, where: us, secret
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 (None, one, we), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 betray | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 None | nmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 betray | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 betray | advmod |
| 6 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 betray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knows | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knows | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 betray | conj |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 secret | nmod:poss |
| 15 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knows | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 safe | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | cop |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 betray | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 betray | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 betray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | future | None of these | us | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | no one | our secret | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | safe property | 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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