Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 92
Was there no hand to save her from this ruinous step--no voice to warn the betrayer of his sin?
Who acts: hand · What happens: be, warn · To what, where: betrayer
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: who acts (hand), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 save | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 save | expl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 hand | det |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 save | mark |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 save | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 step | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 step | det |
| 10 | ruinous | ruinous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 step | amod |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 step | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 warn | mark |
| 16 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 voice | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 betrayer | det |
| 18 | betrayer | betrayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warn | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sin | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 betrayer | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no hand | there | from this ruinous step no voice; moon obj; save property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | no hand not said here | the betrayer of world's sin | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent betrayer=Recipient |
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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