Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 30
If thou wilt protect them, so spare the trees of the wood that still stand; they will thank thee."
Who acts: thou, nymphs · What happens: protect, spare, stand, thank · To what, where: nymphs, trees, wood, thee
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 (thou, nymphs), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 protect | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 protect | aux |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thank | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 protect | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spare | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 spare | advmod |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 protect | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spare | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stand | obj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 stand | advmod |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wood | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thank | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 thank | aux |
| 20 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 thank | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | nymphs = nymph | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | spare | infinitive | thou not said here | the trees of the wood | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Asset | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | the wood | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | future | nymphs = nymph | thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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