Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 105
What good would it do to betray me? and in betraying Henry, you destroy me, rob me of the only earthly protection I can ever hope to enjoy.
Who acts: eternity, you, I · What happens: do, betray, destroy, rob, hope, enjoy · To what, where: me, Henry, only earthly protection
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eternity, you, I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 do | reparandum |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rob | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 betray | mark |
| 7 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 betray | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 destroy | cc |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 betraying | mark |
| 12 | betraying | betray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 destroy | advcl |
| 13 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 betraying | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 betraying | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 destroy | nsubj |
| 16 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 destroy | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rob | punct |
| 19 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 rob | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 protection | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 protection | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 protection | amod |
| 24 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 protection | amod |
| 25 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rob | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 hope | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 hope | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 hope | advmod |
| 29 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 protection | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 enjoy | mark |
| 31 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hope | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 rob | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | eternity | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | betray | to-infinitive | eternity not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | betray | gerund | you not said here | Henry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy | present | you | me | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | rob | imperative | you not said here | me | of the only earthly protection | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of protection=Source | |||
| 6 | hope | can | I | the only earthly protection not said here | ever | tree rules | |||
| 7 | enjoy not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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