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title: What good would it do to betray me? and in betraying Henry, you dest… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: What good would it do to betray me? and in betraying Henry, you destroy me, rob me of the only earthly protection I can ever hope to enjoy. Who acts: eternity, you, I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 105

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What good would it do to betray me? and in betraying Henry, you destroy me, rob me of the only earthly protection I can ever hope to enjoy.

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**Who acts:** eternity, you, I · **What happens:** do, betray, destroy, rob, hope, enjoy · **To what, where:** me, Henry, only earthly protection

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eternity, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:20:105
# text = What good would it do to betray me? and in betraying Henry, you destroy me, rob me of the only earthly protection I can ever hope to enjoy.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	reparandum	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	betray	betray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	betraying	betray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
13	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rob	rob	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would | eternity |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **betray** | to-infinitive | eternity *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **betray** | gerund | you *not said here* | Henry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** | present | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **rob** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | of the only earthly protection | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of protection=Source |
| 6 | **hope** | can | I | the only earthly protection *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **enjoy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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