Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 136
These rent and torn rocks could not fail to possess their legends.
Who acts: rent · What happens: tear, not fail, possess · To what, where: legends
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (rent), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 rent | det |
| 2 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rocks | cc |
| 4 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rocks | amod |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rent | conj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fail | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fail | advmod |
| 8 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 possess | mark |
| 10 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fail | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 possess | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not fail | could | this rent and torn rocks | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | possess | to-infinitive | this rent and torn rocks not said here | rocks's legends | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot legend=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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