Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 159
When built or by whom destroyed are matters of conjecture.
What happens: build, be · To what, where: matters
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 built | advmod |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 matters | cc |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 whom | case |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 matters | obl |
| 6 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 matters | cop |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matters | cop |
| 8 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 built | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 conjecture | case |
| 10 | conjecture | conjecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 matters | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | matters | of conjecture; whom obl | tree rules |
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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