Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 45
What a pity that a work to God's honour must remain unfinished, while the rich build palaces and heap up treasures.
Who acts: work, God · What happens: remain, heap up, honour · To what, where: pity, treasures
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 (work, God), 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 pity | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pity | det |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 remain | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remain | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 honour | case |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 honour | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 God | case |
| 10 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nmod |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 remain | aux |
| 12 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pity | acl:relcl |
| 13 | unfinished | unfinished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remain | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 palaces | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 palaces | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palaces | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 palaces | amod |
| 18 | build | build | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palaces | compound |
| 19 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 remain | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heap | cc |
| 21 | heap | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 remain | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 heap | compound:prt |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heap | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | must | a work to God's honour | a pity | the rich build palaces conj; unfinished property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | |||
| 2 | heap up | present | a work to God's honour not said here | treasures | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | honour | God | nom honour «state transitive»: 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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