Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 109

But the treasurer was a vicious and avaricious man, who resolved to have the stone at any price, even by force if necessary, and as the friends would leave him, he threatened to throw them into prison if the stone were not delivered to him as his property for the hundred thousand Thaler.

Who acts: treasurer, vicious man, friends, finder · What happens: be, resolve, have, leave, threaten, throw · To what, where: vicious man, stone, price, finder, friends, prison

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasurer, vicious man, friends, finder), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 man	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 treasurer	det
3	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
6	vicious	vicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 avaricious	cc
8	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vicious	conj
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 resolved	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 resolved	nsubj
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 resolved	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stone	det
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 price	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 price	det
19	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 force	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 force	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 force	case
23	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 necessary	mark
25	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 force	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 threatened	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 threatened	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 leave	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 friends	det
30	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 leave	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 leave	aux
32	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 threatened	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 leave	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 leave	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 threatened	nsubj
36	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 resolved	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 throw	mark
38	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 threatened	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 throw	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	41 prison	case
41	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 throw	obl
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 delivered	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 stone	det
44	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 delivered	nsubj:pass
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 delivered	aux:pass
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 delivered	advmod
47	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 throw	advcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 delivered	obl
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 property	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 property	nmod:poss
52	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 delivered	obl
53	for	for	ADP	_	57 Thaler	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Thaler	det
55	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 thousand	compound
56	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 Thaler	nummod
57	Thaler	Thaler	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 property	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the treasurer	a vicious man				tree rules
2	resolve	past	a vicious man					tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive	a vicious man not said here	the stone		any price	by force	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
4	leave	would	the friends	finder				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	threaten	past	finder					tree rules
6	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	finder not said here	friends = friend			into prison result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into prison=Result
7	not deliver a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the stone	finder		as finder's property for the thousand Thaler	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination

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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 109