Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 20
Will the products of this soil repay the labour of tillage?
Who acts: products · What happens: repay · To what, where: labour
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 (products), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 repay | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 products | det |
| 3 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 repay | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soil | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 soil | det |
| 6 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 products | nmod |
| 7 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 labour | det |
| 9 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repay | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tillage | case |
| 11 | tillage | tillage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 labour | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | future | the products of this soil | the labour of tillage | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labour=Recipient |
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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