Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 14
To see that we must die grieves me not, for all our beloved are gone on before us; but that we are the last of our race, and our line becomes with us extinct, that it is that fills my heart with woe.
Who acts: we, line, our · What happens: see, die, not grieve, belov, go on, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, line, our), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grieves | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 die | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 die | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 7 | grieves | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grieves | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 grieves | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 our | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 our | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 our | det:predet |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grieves | obj |
| 14 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 our | xcomp |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 beloved | aux:pass |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beloved | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 gone | compound:prt |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 becomes | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 becomes | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 last | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 last | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 last | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 last | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 becomes | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 race | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 race | nmod:poss |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 last | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 becomes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 becomes | cc |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 line | nmod:poss |
| 33 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 becomes | nsubj |
| 34 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grieves | parataxis |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 us | case |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 becomes | obl |
| 37 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 becomes | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fills | punct |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 fills | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 fills | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 fills | cop |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 fills | mark |
| 43 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 becomes | conj |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fills | obj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 woe | case |
| 47 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fills | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grieves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | die | must | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not grieve | present | me | our obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer our=Result | ||||
| 4 | belov | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | go on | participle | before us | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before we=Location | |||||
| 6 | is | present | we | of our race; last property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | become | present | our line | with us; extinct property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is | present | line | with woe; my heart obj; fill property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | race | our | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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