Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 18
"And what benefit would it be to him to destroy us also?
Who acts: benefit · What happens: be, destroy · To what, where: us
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 (benefit), 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 | _ | 11 destroy | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 destroy | cc |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 benefit | det |
| 4 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 destroy | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 destroy | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 him | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 him | cop |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 destroy | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 destroy | mark |
| 11 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 destroy | obj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 destroy | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | benefit | to race | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | would | what benefit | us | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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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