Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 47
But without a special blessing from God, many years may pass away before the church is finished."
Who acts: many years · What happens: pass away, finish · To what, where: church
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 (many years), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pass | cc |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 blessing | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blessing | det |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blessing | amod |
| 5 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 blessing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blessing | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pass | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pass | aux |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 pass | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 finished | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 finished | aux:pass |
| 18 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pass | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pass | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | may | many years | without a special blessing from God; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | finish | present · passive | the church | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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