Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 70
"How can you stand before God? how can you dare pray?
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, dare, pray
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 (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stand | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 dare | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 dare | nsubj |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stand | advcl |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dare | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | can | you | before God | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before god=Location | ||||
| 2 | dare in a quote | can | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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