Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 105
"But, alas! my wealth and joy are--a grave!
What happens: be · To what, where: grave
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 grave | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 are | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 10 are | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 are | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 joy | cc |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wealth | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grave | cop |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 grave | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grave | det |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 grave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a grave | tree rules |
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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