Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 82
If the treasure in their possession had not proved to the contrary, they would have held the whole thing for a dream.
Who acts: treasure, treasures · What happens: not prove, hold, possess · To what, where: 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 (treasure, treasures), 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 | _ | 9 proved | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treasure | det |
| 3 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proved | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 possession | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 possession | nmod:poss |
| 6 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treasure | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proved | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 proved | advmod |
| 9 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 held | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 contrary | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 contrary | det |
| 12 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proved | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 held | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 held | aux |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 dream | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dream | det |
| 23 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prove a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the treasure in treasures's possession | to the contrary | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to contrary=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hold | would · perfect · passive | treasures = treasure | the whole thing obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | possess | treasures = treasure | nom possession «act 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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