Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 85
My rage shall crush him; ruin on his head who has robbed me of the joy of my old age--the heart of my daughter."
Who acts: rage, My · What happens: crush, rob, rage, joy · To what, where: Kaiser, ruin, old age
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (rage, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crush | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 crush | aux |
| 4 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crush | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruin | punct |
| 7 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crush | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruin | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 robbed | aux |
| 13 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ruin | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 robbed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 joy | det |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 robbed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 age | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 age | nmod:poss |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 age | amod |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joy | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 heart | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heart | det |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruin | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 daughter | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heart | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crush | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 crush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | shall | My rage | Kaiser | ruin on Kaiser's head and the heart of my daughter obl | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | rob | present · perfect · passive | ruin on Kaiser's head and the heart of my daughter | of the joy of my old age; me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rage | My | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | joy | my old age | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=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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