Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 19
What benefit has it been to him that he has destroyed our sisters?
Who acts: benefit · What happens: have, destroy · To what, where: forest, race
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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 benefit | det |
| 2 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 been | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 destroyed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 destroyed | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 destroyed | aux |
| 11 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | parataxis |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 destroyed | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | what benefit | forest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | destroy | participle · perfect · passive | race | our sisters obj | tree rules |
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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