Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 68
He has trodden your honour and name in the dust, but you consented, and destroyed what you might have been for ever.
Who acts: Henry, you, your · What happens: tread, consent, destroy, have, honour · To what, where: honour, dust
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 (Henry, you, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trodden | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trodden | aux |
| 3 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 honour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trodden | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 name | cc |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honour | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dust | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dust | det |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trodden | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 consented | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 consented | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 consented | nsubj |
| 14 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trodden | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroyed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 destroyed | cc |
| 17 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 consented | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 destroyed | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 might | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 might | xcomp |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 have | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 been | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trodden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | present · perfect | Henry | your honour and name | the dust | tree rules | |||
| 2 | consent | past | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | destroy | past | you not said here | what obj | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | honour | your | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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