Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 38
Why was I doomed to lose my mother?
What happens: doom, lose · To what, where: I, mother
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 doomed | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doomed | aux:pass |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 doomed | nsubj |
| 4 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lose | mark |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 doomed | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 doomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | past · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | my mother | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality |
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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