Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 11
In a quarter of an hour we may become rich and happy, or for ever lost in perdition.
Who acts: we · What happens: become, lose · To what, where: quarter, perdition
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 quarter | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quarter | det |
| 3 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hour | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quarter | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 become | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rich | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 lost | cc |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 lost | mark |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 lost | advmod |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 become | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 perdition | case |
| 19 | perdition | perdition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | may | we | in a quarter of a hour result; rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in quarter=Result | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | we not said here | perdition | ever | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in perdition=Eventuality |
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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