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title: "And what benefit would it be to him to destroy us also? — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "And what benefit would it be to him to destroy us also? Who acts: benefit. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 18

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"And what benefit would it be to him to destroy us also?

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**Who acts:** benefit · **What happens:** be, destroy · **To what, where:** us

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., 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 (benefit), 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:pg74323:24:18
# text = "And what benefit would it be to him to destroy us also?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | benefit |  |  |  |  | to race | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** *in a quote* | would | what benefit | us |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |

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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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