Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 120
Now he must die as a criminal, separated from wife and children, who would never know what had become of him.
Who acts: leader, children · What happens: die, separate, not know, become · To what, where: criminal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader, children), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 die | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 criminal | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 criminal | det |
| 7 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 separated | punct |
| 9 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 criminal | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 separated | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wife | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 children | acl:relcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 know | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 become | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | must | leader | now | as a criminal | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | separate | participle | a criminal not said here | from wife and children | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from wife=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | not know | would | children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | of leader; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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