Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 112
Then I can be of more service to you without than if I stayed here.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, stay · To what, where: you
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 service | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 service | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 service | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 service | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 service | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 service | amod |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 service | nmod |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 stayed | mark |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 stayed | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 stayed | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stayed | nsubj |
| 14 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 service | advcl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stayed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | I | you | then | of more service | tree rules | ||
| 2 | stay a condition, not said to happen | past | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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