Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 29
If you deny the Bible, we have no common ground of argument; and if your argument be true, we have after this life--nothing.
Who acts: you, we, argument, your · What happens: deny, have, be, argue · To what, where: Bible, common ground
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: who acts (you, we, argument, your), 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 | _ | 3 deny | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 deny | nsubj |
| 3 | deny | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bible | det |
| 5 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 deny | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deny | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 ground | det |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ground | amod |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 argument | case |
| 13 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ground | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 true | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 true | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 true | mark |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 argument | nmod:poss |
| 18 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 true | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 true | cop |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 have | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 true | parataxis |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 life | det |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 nothing | punct |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 life | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the Bible | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent bible=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | no common ground of argument | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | your argument | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | we | after this life nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | argue | your | nom argument «communication 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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